The Crusader Follis bronze coins of the early 12th century are among the most historically evocative and culturally fascinating coins of the medieval world, produced by the newly established Crusader states of the Levant as their Latin Christian rulers sought to create functioning monetary economies in the territories they had seized during the First Crusade. This Crusader Follis is in Extremely Fine 45 condition, according to the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC), and reflects the remarkable cultural and artistic synthesis of the Crusader world, where Western European rulers adapted the Byzantine and Islamic coinage traditions they encountered in the Holy Land to serve their own political and commercial needs. Right now, Crusader Follis Coins from the reign of Tancred are available from JM Bullion.

Coin Highlights:

• Arrives in an individual slab!
• Issued in Antioch between 1101 and 1112 AD!
• Struck during the reign of Tancred!
• Contains a bronze alloy.
• Issued a grade of Extremely Fine 45 by the NGC.
• Religious figure depicted on the obverse.
• Greek or Latin inscriptions are common on the reverse.

Each Crusader Follis Coin available here comes in Extremely Fine condition with a 45 grade on the Sheldon Numeric Scale. Tancred’s coins are prized by collectors of Crusader numismatics for their direct personal attribution to a figure who features prominently in the chronicles of the First Crusade and whose political and military activities shaped the early history of the Latin East.

The Follis coins issued by Tancred as regent of the Principality of Antioch represent some of the most historically significant and personally attributed Crusader bronze coins known to numismatists, struck by one of the First Crusade’s most celebrated and controversial leaders whose regency over the great Syrian city of Antioch made him one of the most powerful Latin rulers in the medieval Levant. 

The design Crusader Follic Coins issued in Antioch by Tancred typically feature a facing bust of a military figure or saint rendered in the bold, frontal style that draws on the Byzantine artistic tradition the Crusaders encountered in the Levant, often identified as a warrior saint or as Tancred himself in the military guise appropriate to a ruler who defined his authority primarily through martial achievement. The reverse carries Greek or Latin inscriptions and symbolic imagery that reflects the hybrid cultural identity of the Crusader states, their coins blending Eastern and Western visual traditions.

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