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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France, Kingdom. Philippe IV 'le Bel' (the Fair) AR Gros Tournois. 1285-1290.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
✠ BNDICTV ⁝ SIT ⁝ NOᙏЄ ⁝ DNI ⁝ ꞂRI ⁝ DЄI ⁝ IҺV ⁝ XPI in outer margin, ✠ PҺILIPPVS (trefoil) REX in inner margin, short cross pattée / ✠ TVRONVS ஃ CIVIS around châtel tournois within border of twelve lis. NGC graded GENUINE (#8230595-024).
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
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. -
Crusader States. Cyprus (Lusignan Kingdom), Hugh IV AR Gros. 1324-1359. Famagusta mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
ҺVGVЄ RЄI DЄ, King seated facing on throne decorated with lions, crowned, holding lis-tipped sceptre with his right hand and globus cruciger with his left; B to left / ✠ IЄRUSA[...] Є D' CҺIPR, cross of Jerusalem with square centre; crosses in each quarter part. Cf. Metcalf, Crusades 756; cf. CCS 69. 4.49gr, 26mm, 7h.
Very Fine. Toned.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
