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LOT 3301
Crusaders, Edessa (County). Baldwin II AE Follis. Second reign, 1108-1118.
B-[Δ?]O, count dressed in chain-armour and conical helmet, standing front, head to left, holding cross in his right hand and placing his left on the hilt of his sword / Cross fleuronnée with pellets at the ends, set on tendrils. Metcalf, Crusades 111; CCS 9a. Near Very Fine.(3.81gr, 21mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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