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Fractional denier Triskelion
| Issuer | Principality of Antioch |
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| Year | 1100-1120 |
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| Weight | 0.9 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | R A M |
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The Principality of Antioch was established in 1098 when Bohemond I seized the city during the First Crusade, and these fractional copper pieces were among the earliest coins struck by the new Latin rulers. Antioch had its own pre-existing Byzantine and Armenian monetary traditions, and the Crusader mint drew on local die-cutters whose craft background almost certainly explains the triskelion motif's appearance on this issue.
Metcalf's classification of this type places it firmly in the earliest phase of Antiochene coinage, before the principality's monetary output stabilized under later rulers.