- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- Production: 1165 - 1204
- Associated person
- Grenier Raynald (1130s - 1202)
- Subject(s)
- Bearers of the Cross
- Inscriptions
-
obverse: +RENALDUS
reverse: +SYDONIA
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 17mm
Weight: 0.91g - Materials and technique
- Copper
- Production place
- Sidon
- Related place(s)
- Sidon
- References
-
Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Pages 89-92 - Credit line
-
The Mildred King Memorial Collection.
Gift of Colonel E.J. King, 1935 - Catalogue number
- SI4
Pougeoise of Raynald Grenier
The earliest coins in Sidon were minted by Raynald of Sidon from the 1170s. On the reverse is an arrow – a pun on the French name for the city, saiette.