The two coins here below are attributed as from Byzantine Empire, but I've never seen them before: Are they anonymous folles (from Byzantine)? Or are they crusader coins? I don't intend to bid, But I'm just curious. I am 98% sure they are NOT byzantine. Thank you for any help you can provide to solve this mystery.
From the description of my similar one: Crusaders, Principality of Antioch, Tancred as regent; 1104-1112 AD AE Follis, Antioch Obverse: O / ΠE - T-POC ; Nimbate facing bust of St. Peter, holding cross-tipped sceptre. Reverse: + / KЄ BOI / ΘH TOΔV / ΛO COV T / ANKRI / + (“ Lord, help your servant Tancred.”) Reference: Malloy – page 199 # 3a, Grierson p. 102; 228 Size: 21 mm., 3,37 g. Conservation: very fine Tancred, a Norman leader of the 1st Crusade, became Prince of Galilee and regent of the Principality of Antioch when his uncle Bohemund was taken prisoner. He later took the County of Edessa when Baldwin II was captured, but Baldwin was released, defeated him and took it back. Tancred was made regent of Antioch again when Bohemund went to Europe to recruit more Crusaders. Tancred refused to honor a treaty in of fealty to the Byzantine Emperor, making Antioch independent, and ruled until his death in a typhoid epidemic.
