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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Black Friar, post: 2385129, member: 76221&quot;]This is a very cool coin and quite unusual to find any info on it if you don&#039;t know where to start.&nbsp; I found a page in Michael Mitchiner&#039;s <i>World of Islam</i> on page 328 under The Crusades, #&#039;s 2420-2438.&nbsp; I was looking for something else and happened upon this page only a few days ago.&nbsp; The material before it was on the Crusades. Totally accidental my my brain remembered where to look as a result of your posting.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s lead:&nbsp; Mitchiner says: &quot;A series of small Byzantine inspired lead coins.&quot;&nbsp; It has a star obverse, reverse is crossed crosses.&nbsp; Mitchiner goes on to say: &quot;This small hoard of lead coins was brought to London bya Turkish dealer in 1975 along with sundry Byzantine and Isslamic copper coins from the Turkey-Syria region.&nbsp; Scatteered additional coins of the lead series have been seen since then in London.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been collection Byzantine and related coinages for thirty years.&nbsp; I have never encountered on of these and would certainly grab it if I did see one.&nbsp; I hope you still have it.&nbsp; As far as value, only the coin gods know.&nbsp; It is certainly for the specialist.&nbsp; I hope this helps.&nbsp; I love puzzles like this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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