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 Posted 01/09/2024  1:19 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Wallet to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi!
Can anyone help me to identify this coin. Seams to be double striked. Weigth 2.80 gram. Diameter 21-22.5 mm.
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 Posted 01/09/2024  1:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
With a nimbate figure riding a horse/donkey, this seems to be a religious token rather than a coin. I wonder if it wasn't for palm sunday?
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 Posted 01/09/2024  1:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kamnaskires to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
See:
https://www.acsearch.info/search.ht...=usd&order=0

If link doesn't work: its a follis of Roger of Salerno, regent of Antioch.
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 Posted 01/09/2024  2:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Ah well, glad you are here Bob to fix my mistakes. Nice work on the ID--I hadn't considered Crusader States for this one.
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 Posted 01/09/2024  2:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Wallet to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@Kamnaskires Great! Thank you!
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 Posted 01/09/2024  5:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add tdziemia to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I can think of a half dozen other places with St. George, but didn't know this one.
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 Posted 01/09/2024  10:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add captainmandrake1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Was thinking it was Byzantine because of St. George and the Greek writing.
Great work identifying, kamnaskires!
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 Posted 01/10/2024  2:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add tdziemia to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Was thinking it was Byzantine because of St. George and the Greek writing.


... though the Byzantine iconography has him standing, not on horseback. According to at least one source, this is the earliest use of this iconography of St. George on a coin (ironically by a French ruler).
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 Posted 01/12/2024  04:25 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Wallet to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It's nice to see that even Wikipedia had a similar coin as this on the page of Roger of Salerna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_of_Salerno
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