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346, Lot: 574. Estimate $300.
Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Imitation Bezants. 11th-12th centuries. AV Bezant (22mm, 3.58 g, 8h). Imitating a Misr mint dinar of the Abbasid caliph al-Amir, dated AH 510 (AD 1116/17). Acre mint. Second Phase, struck 1148/59-1187. Beginning of caliphal titles in two lines, continuation of name and titles in inner margin; mint formula in outer margin / "'al/ghaya" in two lines across field, Kalima in inner margin, "Second Symbol" (Quran 9: 33) in outer margin. Balog & Yvon 27a-f; Metcalf, Crusades 119-125; CCS 4. Good VF.