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CS56
- County of Tripoli, Bohémond IV or V
(1187-1252), Gold Bezant, 3.64g., struck in the name of the Fatamid
caliph, al-Mustansir; c.1187-1250, name and titles of al-Mustansir in
pseudo-Kufic script in four lines across field, • B • above, “Umayyad Second
Symbol” (Quran 9.33) in pseudo-Kufic script in outer margin, rev.,
“Ali” and Shahada in pseudo-Kufic script in four lines across field; • T •
above; bismillah, mint formula, and AH date in pseudo-Kufic scrip tin
outer margin, cross in center, (Metcalf, Crusades 489; CCS 8),
very fine, rare. $695 SOLD |