- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- Production: 1251 - 1258
- Subject(s)
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Colonialism
Bearers of the Cross - Inscriptions
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obverse: (The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost / One God / Al-ab wa-l ibn wa-ruh Al-qudus / ilah waahid)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 17.5mm
Weight: 2.74g - Materials and technique
- Gold, struck
- Production place
- Acre
- Related place(s)
- Acre
- Themes
- Intercultural and Religious Exchange Throughout 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.
Pages 43-51
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 134
Catalogue number 14
History Hit. “Inside One of London's Oldest Medieval Crypts.” YouTube video, 20:44. Posted by “History Hit” August 7, 2023. Accessed April 10, 2025. https://youtu.be/utslUpFKpM4?si=r_1ktp7Kex9hkRqo - Catalogue number
- JE71
Kingdom of Jerusalem Christian gold coin
For many decades coins bearing Muslim doctrines were being issued by the Franks, Christians, in Acre and Tripoli. This was reported to Pope Innocent IV, who issued a letter forbidding this imitative coinage, but a ban had already been enforced before the letter arrived. This example, with Christian doctrines in Arabic and a prominent cross, was what followed shortly after.