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LOT 4134
Crusaders, Achaea (Principality). Charles I de Anjou BI Denier Tournois. AD 1278-1285. Clarenzia (Glarentza) mint.
✠ 'CLARENTIA', châtel tournois / ✠ 'K • R • PRINC' ACҺ' around cross pattée. Cf. Metcalf, Crusades 948-9. Very Fine.(0.95gr, 19mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
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LOT 4134
Crusaders, Achaea (Principality). Charles I de Anjou BI Denier Tournois.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
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Crusaders. Bohémond III BI Denier. 1163-1201. Antioch (Principality) mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
✠ BOANVNDVS, helmetted head to left, between crescent and star / ✠ ANTIஃOCHIA, cross pattée, crescent in second angle. Cf. Metcalf, Crusades 400-3; cf. CCS 70. 0.99gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Crusaders. Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Baldwin III(?) BI Denier. 1143-1163.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Illegible inscription, cross pattée / ✠ DЄ IЄRVSALЄM, tower of David. Cf. Metcalf, Crusades 159-164; cf. CCS 10. 1.06gr, 17mm.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Crusader States. Cyprus (Lusignan Kingdom), Hugh IV AR Gros. 1324-1359. Uncertain mint in Cyprus.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
ҺVGVЄ RЄI DЄ, King seated facing on throne decorated with lions, crowned, holding lis-tipped sceptre with his right hand and globus cruciger with his left; jewel hanging on chain around King's neck / ✠ IЄRUSA[...] Є D CҺIPR, cross of Jerusalem with square centre; crosses in each quarter part. Cf. Metcalf, Crusades 752; cf. CCS 68-69. 4.47gr, 26mm, 10h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
