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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 3524286, member: 56653&quot;]There is no definitive and singular perspective about what constitutes &quot;crusader coins.&quot; But there are two main directions, both part of pretty much the same convention:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Coins minted by a Latin (i.e. Western European) authority in the territories acquired and settled by the Crusaders in the Eastern Mediterranean, wrestled back into Christian control after the islamic invansions that had started in the 7th century. Some consider the crusading period to be ending with the fall of Acre in 1291 and only take into consideration the eastern Levantine areas of modern day South-East Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the small and ill-fated attempts into North Africa.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Coins minted by a Latin authority in territories acquired and settled by Westerners in the Eastern Mediterranean space at large, thus including territories occupied after 1204 from the Eastern Roman Empire and the Italian trade colonies in the Archipelago and the Black Sea. By this more inclusive perspective, all mintings by a Western authority or interest in the East (regardless of who (if any) had ruled there before that) are &quot;crusader coins&quot; even if the rulers and settlers minting and using these coins were not crusaders per se. It includes the Frankokratia and subsequent Italian interests in peninsular and insular Greece, Cyprus, Thrace, the Adriatic coast, the Black Sea usw. There are also discussions about adding the dominions of the German Order (Teutons) in Central Europe. About the dating of this more broader idea, a generic terminus ante quem could be 1522-30: the Ottoman conquest of Rhodes and the granting of Malta to the Hospitallers. </p><p><br /></p><p>But you will not find a single book covering all of this.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are other perspectives as well, most notably the even broader one including the Christian Spanish states during the Reconquista (until about 1492) or the Norman states in Italy starting from the 11th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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