World Gold Coins
Lot 1517 SESSION 7 (11.30AM WEDNESDAY 24TH NOV) World Gold Coins
Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $650
CRUSADERS, County of Tripoli, Bohemond IV of Antioch to Bohemond VII, (1187-1287), gold bezant, 23mm, (3.71 g), Imitating a dinar of the Ayyubid caliph al-Mustansir; Tripoli mint, Third phase, after 1187-1260 or later, obv. Kalima in four lines, ali above; mint formula and AH date in outer margin, T above ali; + below, rev. name and titles of al-Mustansir in three lines, maad above; "Second Symbol" (Quran 9: 33) in outer margin; B above maad, (Balog & Yvon 13; Metcalf, Crusades, 488; CCS 7). Very fine, areas of light toning, peripheral weak strike and a flan crack, very rare.
Ex Dr L.J. Sherwin Collection, previously from the Collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, formerly from Stacks 10 December 1987, (lot 4038).
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