Ninth Known Siege of Jerusalem Denier

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 1178. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. temp. Sybelle. 1186-1190. BI Denier (1.35 g, 6h). Struck during the siege of Jerusalem, 1187. + [TVRR]IS DAVIT, Tower of David / + VVЄ[PVLChRVM DO]MINI, view of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Slocum 288; C.J. Sabine, “Numismatic iconography of the Tower of David and the Holy Sepulchre,” NC (1979), pl. 17, 2 (same dies); N. du Quesne Bird, “Two deniers from Jerusalem, Jordan,” NumCirc LXXIII.5 (May 1965), p. 109; Metcalf, Crusades, p. 77; CCS 51. Near VF, deposits. Very rare, one of nine examples known.

The specimen from the Slocum Collection, sold by Sotheby’s (6 March 1997), realized $1430.