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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 5195268, member: 56653&quot;]Keeping with the lingering Crusader theme from last week, here is a denier of Amalric of Jerusalem:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1214439[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>AR19mm, 0.98g billon denier, minted in the City of Jerusalem, cca. 1164/1167-1170.</i></p><p><i>AMALRICVS RЄX o; Cross pattee, annulets in 2nd and 3rd quarters.</i></p><p><i>+ DЄ IЄRVSALЄM; The dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Regular type a).</i></p><p><i>Malloy 25, Metcalf NC (1987) 3, Schlumberger 3, 19.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Dome of the Holy Sepulchre&quot; type has been the royal coinage of the Kingdom of Jerusalem since the mid 1160s. First minted by King Amalric/Amaury of Jerusalem to be the coinage of the realm, it was perpetuated as an immobilized coinage by his successors up to Guy de Lusignan. After the loss of the city of Jerusalem in 1187 and the regrouping of the Crusader territories around Acre after the Third Crusade, King Aimery de Lusignan seems to have revived the type around 1200. These new coins of the immobilized type were of lower weight and silver content, often struck on irregular flans (or clipped flans), of rather inconsistent workmanship and engraving.</p><p><br /></p><p>This particular specimen, with double-barred A&#039;s and higher weight, was most likely minted early during the reign of Amalric or around 1170. The type used to be dated in 1167 (the legal unification of the Holy Sepulchre Basilica and chapels under the same roof and the celebration of the construction of the new altar), but the research of Robert Kool (The Circulation and Use of Coins in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem 1099-1291, Hebrew University, 2013) indicates according to hoard information (Harim hoard, dated in the summer of 1164, Kool p. 106) that the denier was in use in 1164. The type stayed in use as an immobilized type in this format during the reigns of Amalric&#039;s heirs until Guy de Lusignan, cca. 1186-1187.</p><p><br /></p><p>From an older French collection.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And since we have ventured outside the middle ages and into the 16th century, here is something that came from lot on French ebay in 2018, that I only recently got to clean:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1214446[/ATTACH]</p><p>It&#039;s a douzain of Rouen minted for Francois I of France (dit &quot;le Pere des Lettres&quot;) under the royal ordnance of 19/03/1541;</p><p><i>AR25mm, 2.20g, billon douzain a la croisette, Rouen mint (B), 19/03/1541.</i></p><p><i>+ FRANCISCVS: D: G: FRANCORVM ❤ REX; crowned shield with the coat of arms of France, inside a double polylobe, B under the shield</i></p><p><i>+ SIT: NOMEN: DOMINI ❤ BENEDICTVM; croisette inside a double quadrilobe.</i></p><p><i>Duplessy 927, Ciani 1170, Lafaurie 785.</i></p><p><i>&nbsp;</i></p><p>The type is common enough but this spec has an interesting obverse die match with this specimen <a href="https://www.cgb.fr/francois-ier-le-restaurateur-des-lettres-douzain-a-la-croisette-1er-type-n-d-rouen-ttb,bry_574644,a.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cgb.fr/francois-ier-le-restaurateur-des-lettres-douzain-a-la-croisette-1er-type-n-d-rouen-ttb,bry_574644,a.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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