I am attempting to make some sense of these dirhems - some coins that I don't collect, but have accumulated. I am unsure about the attributions -...
The early Crusader coinage from Antioch is very common nowadays, allowing for interesting specimens to always be available. Some time ago I wrote...
This is my first top ten. 2020 was a good year for coins if nothing else. I was trying to think of what else. ‘Working from home’ was about all I...
This small currency of the County of Tripoli was used towards the end of Christian rule on the mainland coast of the Eastern Levant. It is...
Last year I started a new chapter in my numismatic foray, a venture into an older interest that I had but didn't quite pursue: the coinage of the...
In 1100 Tancred d'Hauteville (Tancredi d'Altavilla) was Prince of Galilee, his rule as vassal to the King of Jerusalem extending from Cayphas to...
A short historical and numismatic overview By 1285/6, Charles I d'Anjou was dead and his heir Charles II was held captive in Messina to the...
Around the mid 1160s, the Holy Sepulchre complex, whose building began as early as the 1140s, during the reign of Queen Melisende of Jerusalem, is...
Something interesting that I cannot remember seeing on medieval billon deniers outside of the Holy Land - a very nice iridescent golden glow:...
This is an anonymous issue minted during the lordship of Balian Grenier as Lord of Sidon (1202/4-1241) Constable of Tyre (1229-1231) and Bailie of...
Jean de Dreux inherited the title of Earl of Richmond after his father awarded it to him together with his role as Peer of England in 1268, which...
To most, the Latin issues of Crusader or Latin Constantinople are boring and attract no interest. When you see them on vcoins or in other places,...
When Raymond was brought to marry Constance of Antioch, the Principality was in a dire political situation, caught up between the Byzantine...
This summer to early autumn, Lanz offered -- through its daily auctions on ebay -- a collection of deniers tournois of Frankish Greece. Among the...
The deniers tournois of Ferdinand de Majorca at Glarentza are rather scarce1 and as such, bringing new specimens to the attention of the...
At the death of Thibaut IV de Blois, Count of Blois, Champagne and Brie in 1152, Sancerre became the inheritance for Thibaut's third son Etienne,...
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