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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;romismatist, post: 7811240, member: 44106&quot;]There are a couple of ways you can go about this. The central coinage would likely be the &quot;knight&quot; deniers of the Bohemond rulers of Antioch (I think there are several, and they are pretty cool, with the bust of a knight in chain mail on one side and a cross on the reverse). There is also Crusader coinage from the kingdom in Cyprus (Hugh IV etc). Another subset you can also build is from regional Frankish rulers from Achaea, Greece (Isabella de Villehardouin etc). Lastly, you can expand out to French, British and other coinage associated with the Crusades (such as the denier from the bishops of Valence, for example). </p><p><br /></p><p>There may be even more areas you can build into this type of collection as you learn more about the history and events of the period.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did consider assembling such a set some time ago and did acquire several coin types but ultimately returned to my three core areas: Messapian mints of Magna Grecian Apulia / Calabria (including Taras/Tarentum and Brundisium), coinage of East Frisia from ~900 AD - 1700 AD and my &quot;general&quot; Roman collection that I&#039;ve been working on for about two decades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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