- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- Production: 1148 - 1165
- Subject(s)
- Bearers of the Cross
- Inscriptions
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obverse: (There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah / la ilaha illa allah Muhammad-ur Rasul allah)
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 21mm
Weight: 3.14g - Materials and technique
- Gold, struck
- Production place
- Acre
- Related place(s)
- Acre
- Themes
- Intercultural and Religious Exchange Throughout the Crusades
- References
-
Bates, Michael L. and David Michael Metcalf. “Crusader Coinage with Arabic Inscriptions”. In A History of the Crusades: Volume VI The Impact of the Crusades on Europe, edited by Kenneth M. Setton, 421-483. USA: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Pages 441-443
Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Pages 43-51 - Catalogue number
- JE69
Crusader imitation dinar of Caliph al-Amir
This coin is one of seven examples in the Museum Collection that imitates those issued by Caliph al Amir (r. 1101-1130). The Arabic script of the original coins was not accurately copied, and so much of the inscription on this coin does not correspond to a real letter or particular word in Arabic.