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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 24902197, member: 15481&quot;]From the description of my similar one:</p><p><br /></p><p>Crusaders, Principality of Antioch, Tancred as regent; 1104-1112 AD</p><p><br /></p><p><i>AE Follis, Antioch</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: O / ΠE - T-POC ; Nimbate facing bust of St. Peter, holding cross-tipped sceptre.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: + / KЄ BOI / ΘH TOΔV / ΛO COV T / ANKRI / + (“ Lord, help your servant Tancred.”)</p><p><br /></p><p>Reference: Malloy – page 199 # 3a, Grierson p. 102; 228</p><p><br /></p><p>Size: 21 mm., 3,37 g. Conservation: very fine</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/a1016baa499045669a3729f57b213ce4/7fb80bf9e5184d9b9a7dd11a67ec7ff3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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