CNG 97, Lot: 819. Estimate $750. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Edessa. Baldwin II. Second reign, 1108-1118. Æ (16mm, 1.93 g, 12h). + BA/ΓΔOY/IN XO/[MI] in four lines / + (horizontal retrograde ornate S)TAY9I-C NIXACI, Latin cross pattée with bifurcated lower arm; pellet at each end of other arms. Metcalf, Crusades, p. 37; cf. Pesant 3/1 (obv./rev.); CCS 15c. Good VF, earthen black-green patina. Very rare.