CRUSADERS. Imitating Ayyubid coinage of Damascus. Dirham (Silver, 22 mm, 2.79 g, 8 h), Christian-Arabic Dirham, Akka (Akre), 1251. Large cross pattée; around in arabic, 'one God, one faith, one baptism'; in outer margin, 'struck in Acre in the year one thousand two hundred, one and fifty, from the Incarnation. Rev. 'The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, One Divinity' within square; in outer margin, 'His is the glory, forever and ever, amen, amen' (in Arabic). Bates/Metcalf 55. Malloy 13. Metcalf 227-228 and p.103-104. Schlumberger pl V,28. A rare example of a particularly short lived issue. Well struck on good silver. Good very fine.

Akre was the main port of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was destroyed in 1291 CE by the Mamluk forces of Saladin.