LOT 3622
Hungary, Kingdom. Béla III AE Scyphate Rézpénz. 1172-1196.
SANCTA MARIA, the Virgin seated facing, holding sceptre and infant Christ; crosses across upper fields / RЄX BЄLA RЄX STS, Bela III and Steven III enthroned facing, each holding sceptre and globus cruciger; at bottom, III within border. Unger 114; Huszar 72; CNH 98-100. Good Very Fine.(2.32gr, 26mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceFrom a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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Crusader, Bohémond VII AR Half Gros. 1275-1287.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Tripoli (County) mint. ✠ SЄPTIMVS BOЄMVNDVS COMЄS, cross pattée within tressure of twelve arches / ✠ CIVITAS : TRIPOLIS : SVPIЄ, crenelated castle with three towers, all within tressure of twelve arches. CCS 27; Metcalf, Crusades 1995, 500-3. 3.31gr, 25mm, 10h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Armenia. Cilician Armenia, Levon I AR Tram. 1199-1219.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Sis mint. ✠ ԼԵԻՈՆ ԹԱԳԱԻՈՐ ՀԱՅՈՑ ("Levon, king of the Armenians"), Levon seated facing on throne decorated with lions, his feet resting on footstool, wearing royal mantle on his shoulders, holding globus cruciger in his right hand and lis-tipped sceptre in his left / ✠ ԿԱՐՈՂՈՒԹԲՆ ԱՍՏՈԻԾ ("By the will of God"), two lions rampant back-to-back, each with heads reverted; patriarchal cross between. CCA 123ff. 2.52gr, 23mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Crusaders, Tancred, as Regent, AE Follis. 1101-1112.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Antioch (Principality) mint. Bust of Tancred facing, wearing turban and holding sword / Cross pommetée, fleuronnée at base; in quarters, IC-XC across upper quarters, NI-KA across lower quarters. Metcalf, Crusades 1995, 63-70; CCS 4a. 2.59gr, 21mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
