192, Lot: 339. Estimate $100. Sold for $231. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CRUSADERS, Antioch. Anonymous. Circa 1136-1149. Æ Fractional Denier (18mm, 1.57 g). +PRICEPS (S retrograde), cross pattée; pellet in each quarter / +ANTIOCHIE (retrograde), altar with five legs with chalice in center; cross above, pellets in quarters, open oval below. Cf. Metcalf,
Crusades 465; CCS 21. VF, dark green patina under thick earthen deposits.
From the J.S. Wagner Collection.