LOT 4197
Italy. Sicilia (Regno), Enrico VI (son of Frederick Barbarossa) BI Dirham Fraction. Struck December 1194/5. Palermo mint.
[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. Very Fine.(1.07gr, 11mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 4197
Italy. Sicilia (Regno), Enrico VI (son of Frederick Barbarossa) BI Dirham Fraction.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Crusaders. Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Baldwin III(?) BI Denier. 1143-1163.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Illegible inscription, cross pattée / ✠ DЄ IЄRVSALЄM, tower of David. Cf. Metcalf, Crusades 159-164; cf. CCS 10. 1.06gr, 17mm.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
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.
