Twelfth Known Siege of Jerusalem Denier

CNG 93, Lot: 1444. Estimate $5000. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. temp. Sybelle. 1186-1190. BI Denier (18mm, 0.90 g, 10h). Struck during the siege of Jerusalem, 1187. + • TVDDIS DT[V]ID (sic), Tower of David / + [VV]Є[PVLChRV]M 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. VF, toned, light porosity. Great condition for type. Very rare, one of twelve examples known.