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Tripoli Raymond II-III Denier à l'étoile et au Croissant
| Issuer | County of Tripoli |
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| Year | 1137-1187 |
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| Weight | 0.78 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central design featuring a six- or eight-pointed star set within a crescent, the crescent with tips pointing upward, all enclosed within a beaded inner circle. Several pellets are dispersed around the star and crescent motif in the field. The outer legend reads CIVITAS TRIPOLIS, separated by stops, within a beaded border. The star-and-crescent design is a hallmark of the Crusader County of Tripoli coinage and reflects both Western and Eastern iconographic influences. |
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The County of Tripoli occupied an awkward position among the Crusader states — never as powerful as Jerusalem, never as commercially aggressive as Antioch — and its coinage reflects a monetary pragmatism born of that precarity. The denier à l'étoile et au Croissant borrows celestial Islamic iconography not as religious syncretism but almost certainly as a commercial signal, minted for a population and a trading network that was substantially Muslim and Arab.
Attribution to Raymond II or III individually remains unresolved; the half-century span assigned to this type reflects the limits of die studies on Crusader billon, where stylistic drift is slow and documentary evidence thin.