- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- Production: 1173 - 1187
- Associated person
- Raymond III (1140 - 1187)
- Subject(s)
- Bearers of the Cross
- Inscriptions
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obverse: +CIVITAS
reverse: +TRIPOLIS
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 16.5mm
Weight: 0.69g - Materials and technique
- Copper
- Production place
- Tripoli
- References
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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 109
Catalogue number 245
Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Page 166 - Credit line
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The Mildred King Memorial Collection.
Gift of Colonel E.J. King, 1935 - Catalogue number
- TRI31
Anonymous coin
Previously used copper coins in Tripoli were replaced by an issue like this coin which had a castle or fortified gateway on the obverse and a cross on the reverse. These ‘castle’ type coppers are contemporary with the ‘star’ deniers and were therefore likely to be introduced some time around 1173.