- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- Production: 1228 - 1240
- Subject(s)
- Bearers of the Cross
- 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: 16mm
Weight: 0.68g - Materials and technique
- Billon, struck
- Production place
- Sidon
- References
-
Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Page 91 - 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
- SI9
Denier issued by Balian Grenier
The crusader conquest transformed the sacred landscape of the Holy Land. This coin, which was minted in the lordship of Sidon in the early thirteenth century, records the conversion of a mosque into a cathedral. Many Muslim and Jewish holy sites were appropriated in this way by the region’s new Latin rulers.