- Object type
- Coins
- Date
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Production (possible): 1187 - 1251
Production (possible): 1251 - 1258 - Subject(s)
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Colonialism
Bearers of the Cross - Associated person
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Bohemond VI
Bohemond IV - Dimensions
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Diameter: 19.5mm
Weight: 3.09g - Materials and technique
- Gold, struck
- Production place
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Tripoli
Acre - Themes
- Intercultural and Religious Exchange Throughout the Crusades
- References
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Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Pages 150-151
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 137
Catalogue number 74
Bates, Michael L. and David Michael Metcalf. “Crusader Coinage with Arabic Inscriptions”. In A History of the Crusades: Volume VI The Impact of the Crusades on Europe, edited by Kenneth M. Setton, 421-483. USA: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Pages 425-426, 448, 450, 481 - Catalogue number
- TRI92
Bezant of Acre, Christian Arabic Dinar
The ‘B’ and ‘T’ inscribed on this coin may stand for ‘Boemundus Tripolis’, referring to Bohemond IV of Antioch who was the count of Tripoli 1187 - 1233. This coin may date to 1187 – 1251 from Tripoli, from Saladin’s conquests to Pope Innocent IV’s edict forbidding the imitation of Muslim coinage, or it is contemporary with Christian Arabic Bezants of Acre issued between 1251-1258.