- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- Production: 1228 - 1240
- Subject(s)
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Bearers of the Cross
Colonialism - Associated person
- Balian Grenier (1190s - 1241)
- Inscriptions
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obverse: +D.E.N.I.E.R.
reverse: +D.E.S.E.E.T.E.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 16.5mm
Weight: 0.53g - Materials and technique
- Billon, struck
- Production place
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Sidon
Lebanon - Related place(s)
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Sidon
Lebanon - 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.
Page 91 - Credit line
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The Mildred King Memorial Collection.
Gift of Colonel E.J. King, 1935 - Catalogue number
- SI10
Denier issued by Balian Grenier
It was a royal privilege to mint coins, and so the issue of billon deniers such as this one by the barony of Sidon is an example of the infringement of this royal prerogative. It is, however, not an unique or unusual type of coin, with other baronies such as Beirut also issuing their own coinage.