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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 8130819, member: 56653&quot;]Another clue in establishing with certainty where this type was struck (or at least where it started before possibly moving with Guy to Limassol in the summer of 1192) is the related coinage of Henry of Champagne, which was struck at Acre. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1416288[/ATTACH] </p><p>17mm, 0.85g copper pougeoise, minted at Acre, ca. 1192.</p><p>+ COmES HEnRICVS; cross pattee with annulets in 3rd and 4th quarters</p><p><b>+ </b>PVGES DACCON; fleur de lys</p><p>cf. Malloy 33 (annulets in the cross quarters), Metcalf 199-200, Schlumberger III, 28</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the spirit of his antecessor and first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, although elected king, Henry ruled without the royal title, which is irregular. His coinage in his name is actually unusual on both fronts: on the obverse the ruler is named &#039;Count&#039; instead of King and on the reverse it gives the denomination - pugesa (or pougeoise) a fractional part of the billon denier. The denomination is certainly inspired by the large-scale issues of copper fractional coinage at Tripoli and Antioch (and less at Beirut and Sidon) and was very likely minted as soon as the minting operation for Guy de Lusignan stopped (or was moved to Cyprus) once his rule in the rump Latin Kingdom became untenable. The two coinages -- for Guy and Henry -- are very similar, not in iconography but in overall style, materials and very likely face value. The m in COmES for instance is the same as in Guy&#039;s IERVSALEm, meaning that it is very probable that the dies were cut by the same cutters, very likely working on site in Acre (or perhaps starting even before the capture of Acre for Guy in 1191).</p><p><br /></p><p>Guy de Lusignan ca. 1191-2</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1416291[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Henry of Champagne ca. 1192:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1416292[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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