LOT 4130
Crusaders. Bohémond IV or Bohémond V BI Denier. Struck circa 1225-1250. Antioch (Principality) mint. Class O.
✠ BOAMVNDVS, helmetted head to left, between crescent and star / ✠ ANTIOCHIA, cross pattée, crescent in second angle. Metcalf, Crusades 457-61; CCS 126. Good Very Fine.(0.78gr, 18mm, 5h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
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Italy. Sicilia (Regno), Enrico VI (son of Frederick Barbarossa) BI Dirham Fraction. Struck December 1194/5. Palermo mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
[Z] REX SICIL in two lines; [cross flanked by pellets above], three pellets below / "Harir qaysar al-mu'azzam" in Kufic in three lines. MEC 14, 477-8; Spahr 2. 1.07gr, 11mm, 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. -
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.
