Good morning, I bought this coin attributed as this: Baldwin III, King of Jerusalem (r. 1143-1163) Silver Denier – Cross/Tower of David However, in all my research , it looks more like an Italy denaro 1272-1339 from Genoa. Would you say that is correct? I fear it is. That means I grossly overpaid. I bought it from Harlan Berk, so I assumed they would know. Oh, well. I guess we all make mistakes.
I know nothing about these, but it sure looks like this one from Conrad, King, Genoa, on Numista: Denier (Class D) - Republic of Genoa (1139-1797) – Numista. Can you get your money back?
Maybe. I just hate asking! I paid $200 for it, which would have been a good deal. This coin though is probably only worth $50 at the most. I am not loosing a whole lot, it is mostly just disappointing. I will probably bring it up the next time I am there and see what they can do. They have always treated me very well there.
Give the ancient coin members time to look at this one. I certainly don’t have a clue. Maybe @Bing can help.
Pretty nice example! But you are correct about it not being Baldwin III. It is Conrad III. And the mint is indeed Genoa as you surmised. And as @Neal stated above. Obverse: Tower side. Legend: ✠ IANVA (with intermittent dots/pellets) Reverse: Cross side. Legend: CVNRADI REX Sorry, I cannot attribute it to the exact catalogue number. But here are several Conrad III from the Genoa mint: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=+IANVA+CVNRADI+REX+-gold+-boxes+-generally+-AV+-1,69&category=1-2&lot=&date_from=&date_to=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1¤cy=usd&order=1 BTW: The average hammer price for the first 3 listed at the above link is $40.33
