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LOT 4135
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.(0.74gr, 18mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
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LOT 4135
Crusaders, Achaea (Principality). Charles I de Anjou BI Denier Tournois.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
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Crusaders. Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus, Henry II BI Denier. AD 1285-1324.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
✠ [hЄN]RI • RЄI • DЄ, cross pattée / ✠ IRL'm : ЄD ChIPR, rampant lion to left. Metcalf, Crusades 729; CCS 66a; Tziambazis 29 var. (pellets in quarters of cross). 0.74gr, 15mm, 5h.
Good Very Fine. Some areas of weakness.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 54, 28 February 2019, lot 1184. Property of a London antiquarian. -
Italian States, Genova (Genoa, Republic). Municipal Coinage BI Denaro. In the name of Conrad III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1160s-1170s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
✠ • IA • NV • A •, gateway with two arches / CVNRAD7 REX, cross potent. MIR 16; CNI 2/21. 0.41gr, 14mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Crusaders. Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Amaury BI Denier. 1163-1174.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
✠ DЄ IЄRVSALЄM, church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem / AMALRICVS RЄX, cross pattée with annulets in 2nd and 3rd quarters. CCS 25; Metcalf, Crusades 176. 0.86gr, 18mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
