Ancient Coins

The Latin East, County of Edessa, temp. Baldwin I or II (1100-4), Æ, male figure with outstretched hands holding uncertain objects, rev. garbled legend around star, 1.87g (cf. Porteous, The Early Coinage of the Counts of Edessa, NC 1975, 12, for rev.; cf. Pesant, Barbaric Coins of the Crusader Counts of Edessa, SNC May 1988, pp.115-16, 1-4, for type). Fine; apparently unpublished (£100-150)