374, Lot: 644. Estimate $500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CRUSADERS, Edessa. Joscelin I de Courtenay or Joscelin II. 1119-1150. Æ Follis (23mm, 3.32 g, 9h). Facing bust of Christ Pantocrator / [IЄVS]ЄΛ(IИ), cross pattée. Metcalf,
Crusades, p. 38; R. Pesant, Folles of Doubtful Attribution to Joscelynde Courtenay, Count of Edessa,”
NumCirc XCIII.6 (July-August 1985), 3; CCS –; CNG E-343, lot 661. Good VF, brown patina. Very rare, one of only eleven specimens currently known.