1 Denier - Bohemond III, Minority Bareheaded, Type A

Bohemond III inherited the Principality of Antioch as an infant following the catastrophic Battle of Inab in 1149, where his father Raymond of Poitiers was killed by Nur ad-Din's forces and famously beheaded. The regency passed first to his mother Constance and then became a prolonged political contest involving the Byzantine emperor Manuel I, the Latin patriarch, and competing baronial factions. The "minority" designation on this type reflects that unstable interregnum — coinage continued, but authority behind it was genuinely contested.

Metcalf's die study identified meaningful variation across the 341–345 sequence, suggesting production across multiple years rather than a single emission.