Ah I know you all have been eagerly waiting in suspense to see the bigger of the coin purchase from yesterday.
First I would like to take a snippet and paraphrase from a book I was reading online.
Setton's History of the Crusades.
The large castle coins of Bohemond VII, whose design, the castle and the cross, is so traditional to crusader coinage and is so symbolic of crusading life, its among the finest of all the coins ever struck by the Franks in Syria and Palestine. They are also the last. Part of their beauty today lies in the fact that they mostly survive in fine condition they were not circulated long before Tripoli surrendered to the Mamluk onslaught.
Granted not the perfect coin but the perfect coin for me.
CRUSADER STATES
County of Tripoli.
Bohemond VII 1275-1287.
AR Gros 4.26 grams x 25 mm
+ SEPTIMVS:BOEMVNDVS: COMES around cross within 12 polyfoil design.
Reverse.+CIVITAS: TRIPOLIS: SYRIE around castle with turrets within 12 polyfoil design
Ref:Sch.IV.21
Note: Large, old toning.
Posted 11/10/2014 9:03 pm
