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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 870307, member: 19463&quot;]You might find interest here:</p><p><a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/f/fatimid_dinar_and_a_crusader_b.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/f/fatimid_dinar_and_a_crusader_b.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/f/fatimid_dinar_and_a_crusader_b.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I have plenty of trouble attributing Islamic coins when they are whole so I can&#039;t comment on the Jerusalem, XII-XIII AD attribution but this does appear to be a small piece of a large gold coin with Arabic writing between concentric circles so your attribution seems very believable to me.&nbsp; There are thousands of types over several hundred years.&nbsp; In the history of coinage most issues seem to have been made in denominations but some just certified the metal purity and would have been weighed out at the time of a transaction.&nbsp; These gold coins would have been a lot of money so I can see the need for small change like this piece.&nbsp; Neat item![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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