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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 4204641, member: 80804&quot;]Since we are, after all, a coin group, I&#039;ll include a few photos of crusades-era and/or crusades adjacent coins:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://old.stoa.org/albums/album173/29_Bohemond_denier.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Bohemond III of Antioch, 1163-1188 AD.</p><p>AR Denier</p><p>Obv: +BOAMVNDVS. (Double-annulet A&#039;s) Helmeted and chain-mailed bust left; crescent and star in fields left and right</p><p>Rx: +ANTIOCHIA. Short-cross with crescent in upper-right quadrant</p><p>(Hmm - I should really look up the exact type in Malloy)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://old.stoa.org/albums/album173/A_01_al_Kamil_crusader.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>“Crusader Era” Ayyubids - Or possible contemporary copy by Latin rulers of Jerusalem. Al-Kamil Muhammad I, AH. 623-634 = 1218-1238 AD.</p><p>AR Dirhem, 21mm, 2.88gm, axis: 235º</p><p>Mint of Damascus, AH. 630 - 1234 AD.</p><p>Obv: Inscription of al-Kamil Muhammad.</p><p>Rx: Inscription naming Caliph al-Mustansir.</p><p>Cf. Balog 450-461</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://old.stoa.org/albums/album173/Conrad.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Not &quot;Crusader&quot;, per-se, but of the era:</p><p>Genoa, AR Denier in the name of Conrad III, Holy Roman Emperor</p><p>1139-1339 A.D. (Type frozen)</p><p>Obv: +IANVA. City-gate</p><p>Rx: (+)CVNRADI REX. Short cross</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://old.stoa.org/albums/album173/FauxArabicRezpenz.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Hungary, Bela III, 1172-1196</p><p>Æ Faux Arabic Rezpenz, 23mm, 2.22g, 5h</p><p>Obv &amp; Rx: Pseudo-Arabic legend and inscription within circular borders</p><p>Unger 115; CNH I 101; Huszar 73</p><p><br /></p><p>And a couple of obligatory Bezants:</p><p><img src="http://old.stoa.org/albums/album132/17_Manuel_I.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Manuel I, 1143-1180 AD.</p><p>Electrum Aspron Trachy, 32mm, 4.18g, 6h</p><p>Mint of Constantinople</p><p>Obv: O ЄM / MA - Nɣ / HΛ. Nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing</p><p>pallium &amp; colobium and holding book of Gospels; IC – XC to l. and r.</p><p>Rx: MANɣHΛ ΔЄCΠOTH. The Virgin (on right) and Manuel standing facing.</p><p>The Virgin crowns emperor who holds labarum and akakia.</p><p>SBCV 1957</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://old.stoa.org/albums/album132/13_Alexius_I.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Alexius I, 1081-1118 AD.</p><p>Billon Aspron Trachy, 27mm, 4.27g, 6h</p><p>Mint of Constantinople</p><p>Obv: Christ enthroned facing, nimbate and wearing pallium &amp;</p><p>colobium; holding book of Gospels; IC – XC to l. and r.</p><p>Rx: AΛЄΞIЄ ΔЄCΠT. Bust of Alexius facing wearing crown</p><p>and jeweled chlamys; holding labarum and gl cr.</p><p>SBCV 1918</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;<img src="http://old.stoa.org/albums/album132/John_II_Comnenus_AR.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Empire of Trebizond, John II Comnenus, 1280-1297 AD.</p><p>AR Asper, 22mm, 2.86g, 7h</p><p>Obv: OA (in monogram) / Є / V - ΓЄ / N / O[TΠZ] St. Eugenius standing holding long cross</p><p>Rx: Iɯ / O / KO / MN - N / O / C. John standing</p><p>holding labarum-headed scepter and globus; Manus Dei at upper right.</p><p>SBCV 2610[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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