- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- Production: 1143 - 1163
- Subject(s)
- Bearers of the Cross
- Associated person
- Baldwin III (1130 - 1163)
- Inscriptions
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obverse: BALDVINVS REX. X
reverse: +dE IERVSALEM
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 17mm
Weight: 0.94g - Materials and technique
- Billon, struck
- Production place
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Jerusalem
Palestine - 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.
Pages 53-57 - 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
- JE10
Denier of Baldwin III
This coin depicts the Tower of David, the citadel on the western side of Jerusalem. The Tower was used here by the city’s Latin rulers as a symbol of military might and to draw on a powerful historical source of royal authority to legitimise their new regime.