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FRANCE / CAPETIANS - FRANCE / ROYAL
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1110
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FRANCE / CAPETIANS - FRANCE / ROYAL
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000
Voluntary lot
Description
FRANCE / CAPETIANS - FRANCE / ROYAL
Louis IX, known as Saint Louis (1245–1270). Gold dinar struck in Palestine 125/?, Saint John of Acre.
Obverse Concentric Christian inscriptions in Arabic (naskh), with initial crosses: in the centre “Father, Son and Holy Spirit” and on the outer ring “Minted at Acre in the Year (125?) of the Incarnation of the Messiah” and in the centre “One God”.
Reverse. Concentric Christian inscriptions in Arabic, with initial crosses: on the outer ring, “Glory to the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ the Messiah, from whom we receive salvation and life”; and on the inner ring, “and resurrection, and through whom we are delivered and forgiven”. Central cross.
Dy.196 – CCS p.119, 6 – RN, 1958, Balog and Yvon, no. 40; Gold – 3 g – 20.5 mm – 1 h
Light-coloured gold. The strike is slightly off-centre. TTB.
From around 1148 to 1250, the Crusaders struck imitations of the dinars of the Fatimid caliphs Mustansir-Billah and Al-Amir bi-Ahkamillah. These dinars were known as ‘Saracen besants’ in the West or ‘dinar soury’ in the East. The legate of Pope Innocent IV, Eudes de Châteauroux, who arrived in Acre with Louis IX, found it scandalous to mint coins in the name of Muhammad and had these besants banned. New dinars, proclaiming the Holy Trinity, were minted from 1251 to 1258. However, they retained Arabic script.
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