Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 868. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, County of Tripoli. Bohémond IV or V. 1187-1252. AV Bezant (3.55 g, 7h). Struck in the name of the Fatamid caliph, al-Mustansir; circa 1187-1250. Name and titles of al-Mustansir in pseudo-Kufic script in four lines across field; • B • above; “Umayyad Second Symbol” (Quran 9.33) in pseudo-Kufic script in outer margin / “Ali” and Shahada in pseudo-Kufic script in four lines across field; • T • above; bismillah, mint formula, and AH date in pseudo-Kufic scrip tin outer margin. Balog & Yvon 15; Metcalf, Crusades 488; CCS 7. Near EF.

From the Norman Frank Collection.