- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- Production: 1137 - 1147
- Associated person
- Raymond II (c. 1116 - 1152)
- Subject(s)
- Bearers of the Cross
- Inscriptions
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obverse: RAIMVNDI COMITIS
reverse: MONETA TRIPOLIS
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 15mm
Weight: 0.76g - Materials and technique
- Copper, struck
- Production place
- Tripoli
- References
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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 136
Catalogue number 59
Sabine, C. J. "The Billon and Copper Coinage of the Crusader County of Tripoli, c. 1102-1268". The Numismatic Chronicle. 140 (1980): 71-112.
Page 106
Catalogue number 128
Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Page 159 - Credit line
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The Mildred King Memorial Collection.
Gift of Colonel E.J. King, 1935 - Catalogue number
- TRI3
Coin of Raymond II
The earliest copper coins minted at Tripoli date to the first half of the twelfth century, but this coin was minted a little later. They have a variation in design, which may suggest that they cover quite a long time-span.