Catalog
Pougeoise - Raymond III
| Issuer | County of Tripoli |
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| Year | 1152-1187 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A cross pattée at center, with a pellet-in-annulet at the central junction of the arms, dividing the field into four quarters, each containing a crescent open upward above a pellet. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the Latin legend disposed around the outer border. The overall composition reflects the hybrid Crusader artistic tradition blending Western heraldic and Byzantine decorative conventions. |
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Raymond III ruled Tripoli through one of the most militarily precarious stretches of the crusader states, culminating in the catastrophic defeat at Hattin in 1187 — a battle he survived but which effectively ended the County's independence. These small bronze issues circulated in a port economy heavily dependent on Italian merchant communities, and Tripolitanian coinage of this period shows clear influence from Byzantine and local Syrian monetary traditions absorbed through decades of contact rather than conquest.