Jerusalem. Baldwin III until the battle of the Horns of Hattin (1187) and the fall of Jerusalem, during the reign of Guy de Lusignan. AV Dinar (Saracenic Bezant), second phase, struck 1148/59-1187. Imitating a Fatimid Dinar of al-Amir Abu ʿAli al-Mansur from Misr mint, dated 51[..] AH. D/ Central inscription ʿāl / ghāya’ in two lines; kufic inscription with Kalima around. R/ Central inscription, ‘al-imām / al-Manṣūr’ in two lines; kufic inscription with titles around; mint and date formula in outer margin. BY 25; Malloy 3; Schl. pl. V, 19. 3.72 g. 21 mm. R. Good VF.
Ex Spink 14038, 02.12.2014, lot 296.
This variety always features a legible kufic legends, there are however certain omissions in the date and certain words and the religious legends are sometimes incomplete. As Malloy points out, this typology is distinguished from the Acre mintages both by the variation in the monetary alloy, with a high gold content, and by the general higher epigraphic standard. They should therefore be attributed to an unspecified mint, perhaps in Tyre. These usually bears the mint names of Misr, Iskandariya and sometimes al-Qahira, in many cases partially or completely dated to the following years 506, 508, 509, 510, 514/516 and 518.
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