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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 3523880, member: 91461&quot;]So I am new to medieval coinage. I do have a few crusader coins to share, but was wondering what are the parameters to just what qualifies as a &quot;crusader&quot; coin in the broadest sense be a more conservative sense?</p><p>Here are a few of my new base deniers recently won in a lot.</p><p>The first one I am really happy to have as it is of the Hospitalers. They were contemporaries with (and even teamed up with in battle) the Templars!...except they didn&#039;t perform all of those...unique rituals.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]935853[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Knights of St. John of Malta</u></b> (Hospitalers). Alois de Wignacourt, 1601-1622 AD. Æ 3 Piccioli. 3 with legend around / Arms. RS.49v. VF, green patina</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]935854[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Manfredi </u></b></p><p>Medieval Sicily, Messina. 1258-1266. BI denaro (17.22 mm, .85 g, 11 h). Struck 1263-1266. + MAYNFRID, legend around large gothic M / +. REX. SICILIE , legend around cross pattèe. Spahr 215.</p><p>Ex: Timeline Auction</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]935856[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Corradino di Svevia</u></b></p><p>Medieval Coins ITALY. Sicily. (1254-1258/68). Ae Denaro. Messina.</p><p>Obv: Eagle standing left, head right, with wings spread.</p><p>Rev: Cross pattée over long cross.</p><p>Spahr 168 var. (rev. legend); MEC 14, 591-3 var. (same). Very fine.0.80 g.: 16 mm.</p><p>Ex: Timeline Auction</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]935855[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Frederick II </u></b></p><p>House of Hohenstaufen (1194-1268), (King of Sicily, 1198–1250 King of Germany, 1212-1220 Emperor, 1220-1250), Denaro, Messina or Brindisi, 1214 BI (g 0,66 mm 15 h 12) FREDERIC REX, eagle above, crescent, Rv. + RGNI SICILIE, eight rays star around, pellets. Spahr 91 MEC XIV, 502 Travaini 12. Rare</p><p>Ex: Timeline Auction</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]935857[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Henry III-V</u></b></p><p>Italy, Lucca. 1039-1125. AR denaro (16 mm, 0.96 g, 12 h). + IMPERATOR, monogram of Otto / + EИRICVS, LVCA around central pellet. Biaggi 1056; Metcalf 10-15. Very fine. Ex Time line 34 (March 2019),</p><p>These small deniers from Luca often turn up in the Levant, indicating their extensive use by crusaders. Ex: Timeline Auc[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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