ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Uncertain Beylik. AH 734-749 / AD 1334-1348. AR Gigliato (28mm, 3.78 g, 3h). Imitating a Neapolitan gigliato of Roberto I il Saggio (the Wise) d'Angiò. Uncertain mint.

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Lot: 51. Estimated: $ 500

The Richard A. Jourdan Collection – Early Medieval & Islamic, Silver

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ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Uncertain Beylik. AH 734-749 / AD 1334-1348. AR Gigliato (28mm, 3.78 g, 3h). Imitating a Neapolitan gigliato of Roberto I il Saggio (the Wise) d'Angiò. Uncertain mint. + RORЄRT DЄI GRЄRЄRL ЄT SIЄ ROI +, king enthroned facing, holding lis-tipped scepter and globus cruciger; throne decorated with lions; trilobe on breast / + nOnOR RЄIGS InII(retrograde Є) • IIUI(retrograde Є)LGIЄITII : (sic), cross fleurée; lis in quarters; two pellets above L. Cf. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 347 (official issue of Roberto I); cf. Schlumberger pp. 489-90 and pl. XVIII, 18; cf. Slocum, 929; cf. Scarfèa, Imitazioni 993; Metcalf, Crusades –; CCS –; Album –. Toned. Near EF.

From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Charles H. Wolfe, III, 2003.

Following the collapse of the Seljuqs of Rum in the early 14th century, a collection of Turkish beyliks, or small principalities, took over the regions comprising ancient Ionia, Caria, and Lydia. Many of them established friendly trading relationships with the Crusader successor states in the Aegean, and made use of copies of the Italian gigliati in their commerce. Eventually the gigliato was replaced by the Turkish akçe, as the beyliks were soon to be absorbed by the most powerful of their number, the Ottomans. Mehmet II, the conqueror of Constantinople, brought the last of the emirs under Ottoman control by 1480.

Closing Date and Time: 25 March 2020 at 10:16:40 ET.

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