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Follis - Baudouin II 1st type

Issuer County of Edessa
Year 1108-1118
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Value Follis (1)
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (1108-1118)
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Baudouin II governed Edessa twice — first as count from 1100, then intermittently while held captive by the Artuqids and Danishmendids on three separate occasions between 1104 and 1108. This coin belongs to the period following his return from the last of those captivities, a ransom settled only through contributions extracted from the Armenian population of the county. The chronic instability of Edessan finances under sustained Turkic military pressure makes well-preserved copper from this decade genuinely uncommon.

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