- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- Production: 1112 - 1119
- Subject(s)
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Bearers of the Cross
Crusades - Associated person
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Roger of Salerno (c.1080 - 1119)
Subject: The Virgin Mary (c. 18 BC - after c. 33 AD) - Inscriptions
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obverse: MH-OV
reverse: +/ KE BOH / OEITWCW / AOV^WP / OTSEPI / W+ (for Lord help your servant Roger)
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 22mm
Weight: 5.62g - Materials and technique
- Copper, struck
- Production place
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Antioch
Ancient Syria - Themes
- The Queen and queens of the Crusades
- References
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Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Page 28 - Credit line
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The Mildred King Memorial Collection.
Gift of Colonel E.J. King, 1935 - Catalogue number
- ANT23
Antiochene Copper of Roger of Salerno
The city of Antioch, situated on the banks of the Orontes River in modern day Turkey, was captured in 1098 during the First Crusade. The city became the centre of a new Crusader State. The coins that were minted in the brief period of 1098 until 1130 were influenced by Byzantine currency, with newer styles then being minted until the mid-thirteenth century.