Very Rare Edessa Follis

343, Lot: 661. Estimate $750. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Edessa. Joscelin I de Courtenay or Joscelin II. 1119-1150. Æ Follis (23mm, 3.32 g, 9h). Facing bust of Christ Pantocrator / [IЄVS]ЄΛ(IИ), cross pattée. Metcalf, Crusades, p. 38; R. Pesant, Folles of Doubtful Attribution to Joscelynde Courtenay, Count of Edessa,” NumCirc XCIII.6 (July-August 1985), 3; CCS –. VF, brown patina, areas of weak strike. Very rare, one of only ten specimens currently known.