- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- Production: 1108 - 1118
- Subject(s)
- Bearers of the Cross
- Associated person
- Baldwin II (c. 1075 - 1131)
- Inscriptions
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obverse: BATAOINOC AOYAO CTAY (Baldwin, Servant of the Cross)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 23mm
Weight: 2.27g - Materials and technique
- Copper, struck
- Production place
- Edessa
- References
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Metcalf, David Michael and Pamela Jane Willis. "Crusader Coins in the Museum of the Order of St. John, at Clerkenwell". The Numismatic Chronicle 19, 139 (1979): 133-138.
Page 137
Catalogue number 76
Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Pages 34-35
Foakes, Tom, ed. Treasures: Faith, Care, Valour: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of the Order of St John. Priory of England and the Islands of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 2019.
Page 139
Murray, Alan V. "The Greek Inscriptions on the Coinage of Count Baldwin II of Edessa (1100-18).". Numismatic Chronicle (October 2022): 243-248.
Page 244 - 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
- ED3
Coin of Baldwin II
The county of Edessa was the first Crusader State to be established. This coin reflects the atmosphere of Christian militancy and inter-faith tension associated with the early years of the crusader conquests. The count exhibits a cross with one hand while grasping the handle of his sword with the other. In the inscription, Baldwin is identified as a ‘Servant of the Cross’.