Eleventh Known Siege of Jerusalem Denier

Triton XVI, Lot: 1320. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. temp. Sybelle. 1186-1190. BI Denier (18mm, 1.27 g, 4h). Struck during the siege of Jerusalem, 1187. + T[VR]RI[S] DAVIT (legend retrograde), Tower of David / + V[VЄPVLChRVM] DOMINI, view of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Slocum 288; cf. C.J. Sabine, “Numismatic iconography of the Tower of David and the Holy Sepulchre,” NC 1979, pl. 17, 3; N. du Quesne Bird, “Two deniers from Jerusalem, Jordan,” NumCirc LXXIII.5 (May 1965), p. 109; Metcalf, Crusades, p. 77; CCS 51. Near VF, toned, some earthen deposits. Very rare, one of eleven examples known.