CNG 96, Lot: 1061. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. temp. Sybelle. 1186-1190. BI Denier (17mm, 1.13 g, 12h). Struck during the siege of Jerusalem, 1187. + [•T]VD[D]IS [DTV]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. Fine, toned. Very rare.