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Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 1348. Estimate $300. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008. 
Sold For $355. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Imitative Dirhams. 13th century. AR Dirham (2.40 g, 6h). Acre mint. Dated 1251 (immobilized, struck circa 1251-1258). Central Arabic legend: “One God, one Faith, one Baptism”; marginal Arabic legend: “Struck [in Acre year one thousand and two hundred and one and fifty of the] Incarnation” / Central Arabic legend: “The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one Divinity”; fleur above “Divinty”; marginal Arabic legend: “[His is the glory forever and ever, amen,] amen”. Balog & Yvon 47; Metcalf, Crusades -; CCS 17. VF, light roughness on obverse.