- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- Production: 1137 - 1187
- Subject(s)
- Bearers of the Cross
- Associated person
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Raymond II (c. 1116 - 1152)
Raymond III (1140 - 1187) - Inscriptions
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obverse: +RAMVNDVS COMS
reverse: CIVITAS TRIPOLIS
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 16mm
Weight: 0.83g - Materials and technique
- Billon
- 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 102
Catalogue number 8
Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Page 162 - Credit line
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The Mildred King Memorial Collection.
Gift of Colonel E.J. King, 1935 - Catalogue number
- TRI8
Coin of Raymond II or Raymond III
This is a ‘star and crescent’ denier of Raymond II or Raymond III, first struck in the late 1140s. The motif on the reverse of this coin consists of thin upward crescents outlined with 30 to 35 fine pellets below a star of eight rays interspersed with small pellets. In heraldic terms this can be understood as representing a sun and moon and is very similar to coins minted in Provence.