LOT 4128
Crusaders. Bohémond III BI Denier. Struck circa 1163-1188, or later. Antioch (Principality) mint.
✠ BOAIIVIIDVS(sic), bust to left, wearing Norman helmet decorated with cross pattée and chainmail coif; crescent to left, star to right; double barred A with pellet at each end; three bar S with pellets / ✠ A[...]TIⵙCIIIA(sic), cross pattée; crescent in second quarter; double barred A with pellet at each end. Metcalf, Crusades 425; cf. CCS 78a (Bohémond IV). Very Fine.(0.98gr, 18mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Netherlands. Serain, Waleran II of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny AR Esterlin. 1304-1353 and 1364-1366.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
✠ GVALЄR' DЄ LVSЄNB, crowned facing bust / MON-ЄTA SЄR-ЄNЄ, long cross pattée; triple pellets in quarters. P.A. 6907; Mayhew 223; Weiller, Etr., 135. 1.29gr, 18mm, 6h.
Good Fine.
Found Suffolk, UK. -
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. Bohémond IV or Bohémond V BI Denier. Struck circa 1225-1250. Antioch (Principality) mint. Class O.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
✠ BOAMVNDVS, helmetted head to left, between crescent and star / ✠ ANTIOCHIA, cross pattée, crescent in second angle. Metcalf, Crusades 457-61; CCS 126. 0.78gr, 18mm, 5h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
