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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 2780663, member: 4910&quot;]During the Crusades, Islamic coins were so well made that the Crusaders made imitations of them, including the original Islamic inscriptions.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_crusader_dinar_fatimid.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem gold bezant</p><p>20mm, 3.90gm, struck AD 1148-1187</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins were copies of Moslem Fatimid coins, down to the Kufic legends promoting Islam as the true religion. Kufic was a form of Arabic writing used at the time. Most of the copies used the design of the Fatimid king al-Amir who ruled AD 1101-1130. The first coins were direct copies, as time went on the legends became less clear.</p><p><br /></p><p>In AD 1250 Pope Innocent IV (AD 1243-1254) ordered the Crusaders to stop making coins with Islamic legends and they began putting Christian legends on their coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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