- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- Production: 1163 - 1201
- Subject(s)
- Bearers of the Cross
- Associated person
- Bohemond III of Antioch (c. 1148 - 1201)
- Inscriptions
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obverse: +BOANVNDVS
reverse: +AMTIOCHIA
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 17mm
Weight: 1.01g - Materials and technique
- Billon, struck
- Production place
- Antioch
- References
-
Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Pages 128-129 - Exhibition history
- Holy City, Holy War: Devotion to the Sacred in Crusader Jerusalem, Museum of the Order of St John, 2 September 2017-22 December 2017
- Credit line
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The Mildred King Memorial Collection.
Gift of Colonel E.J. King, 1935 - Catalogue number
- ANT45
Denier in the name of Bohemond
The sign of the cross was the defining symbol of the crusading movement and it continued to shape the devotional sensibilities of those Latins who settled in the Holy Land. These coins from the principality of Antioch show a heavily armoured Christian warrior, with the sign of the cross emblazoned prominently upon his helmet.