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Follis au Buste du Christ Nimbé Tancred 3éme Type
| Issuer | Principality of Antioch |
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| Year | 1104-1112 |
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| Reference(s) | MAL#5, Metcalf1#83 |
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| Obverse lettering | IC-XC |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tancred governed Antioch twice as regent — first from 1101 to 1103 while Bohemond I was held captive by the Danishmend Turks, then again from 1104 following Bohemond's re-capture at the Battle of Harran. This third type follis dates to the second regency, an eight-year stretch during which Tancred effectively ruled the principality as his own. Bohemond never returned to reclaim it in any meaningful sense.
The deliberate use of Byzantine iconographic conventions on Crusader copper coinage was a calculated move — Antioch's population remained overwhelmingly Greek and Armenian Christian, and familiarity on the coinage mattered.