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About ten years ago I was paying $200-$500 for my Edessa Baldwin II light issue coins. And they were very rare. Now you can get them for $50 or less. But despite the fact that these coins have become quite common, sometimes you can spot a previously unpublished subtype . Here is one . 3.3 g. I'm sure this type exists in private collections , but online I've found only one in the collection of Erich Wäckerlin . Münzen & Medaillen 47 , lot 186 .

I think that the style of "amorium" follis looks more Byzantine than crusader Edessa. The pictures of coin in the article that overstruck on Baldwin's follis is too blurry , so is impossible to confirm that . I think that your coin is overstruck on SBCV 1889 . As mentioned by Celator , you can see part of gospel on the reverse.

Principality of Achaea, William of Villehardouin (Guillaume II de Villehardouin ) 1245 - 1278 AE denier . 0.683g 18.2mm Corinth mint G • P • ACCAIE • long cross, extending beyond inner circular border and dividing legend + • CORINTVOm (clockwise from 2:00, N appearing as H, Om ligate), fortified castle, cross flanked by pellets above CCS 3 ; Schlumberger pl. XII, 7 ex Varesi auction 42 (17 Nov 2003), lot 1563; Ex Forum . Principality of Achaea, William of Villehardouin (Guillaume II de Villehardouin ) 1245 - 1278 AE denier . 0.6 Gr. G • P • ACCAIE • Short cross pattee . + CORINTI • Genoese gateway . CCS 1 ; Schl. XII,10. Metcalf 881-883 Principality of Achaea, William of Villehardouin (Guillaume II de Villehardouin )1245 - 1278 AE denier . 0.7 Gr. G • P • ACCAIE • Short cross pattee . + CORINTI• Genoese gateway . CCS 1 ; Schl. XII,10. Metcalf 881-883

Principality of Achaea. Guillaume II de Villehardouin, 1246-1278. AE Denier 0.9 g . + •G. PRINCEPS• Bare head of Guillaume facing. + •AChAIE •Cross with a pellet in each quarter. Metcalf 870 ; CCS 5 ; Schlumberger XII, 6.

Space filler without breaking the budget .... Lordship of Carytaena . Helena Angelina Comnena 1291-1300. Denier tournois. 17mm/ 0.47 g. +ҺELENA DI GRA, cross pattée +CLARICTIA S F , châtel tournois. Sch. XII, 28; CCS 77b

County of Provence , Charles I of Anjou 1246-1285 . BI denier tournois + K: CO: P FI. RE. F. Cross pattee + PVINCIALIS Chateau tournois with fleur-de-lys 1.1 g. Roberts 5206 ; Poey d'Avant 1189

@TheTrachyEnjoyer Glad to see that one more of my coins ended up in your hands again 🙂

Germany. Speyer. Heinrich III 1039-1056. AR Denar . Speyer mint. +SCA MARIA half-length portrait of Mary with hand raised, in front head of Christ Child facing Church, therein CH/ON. Dannenberg 838

Alexius I Comnenus. EL Aspron trachy. Thessalonica mint. AV: + KERO ALEZI Christ enthroned facing, with nimbus cross, holding book of Gospels, XC-IC to left and right. RV: + AΛΕZCW ΔCΠ Alexius, wearing divitision and loros, and holding cross on globe being crowned by Mary, nimbate; star above. SBCV 1927 ; DOC IV Plate V type 23c . An unpublished variation of the reverse legend.

Latin Empire of Constantinopole. AE Trachy Large module. Constantinople mint. St. Nicholas standing facing, orans. St. John the Baptist standing facing. 2.9 g. SBCV 2041 Latin Empire of Constantinopole. AE Trachy small module. Constantinople mint. St. Nicholas standing facing, orans. St. John the Baptist standing facing. 2.1 g. SBCV 2052

Crusaders. Lordship of Beirut. John of Ibelin (1205-1236), Billon Denier Obverse : + IOhANNЄS around cross pattée, pellets in second and third quarters . Reverse : + DE BЄRITI around castle CCS 4

Principality of Antioch . Roger of Salerno, Regent (1112-1119), Æ Follis first type, overstruck on Tancred’s fourth type . 19mm, 2.18 g Obverse : Christ nimbate, right hand raised in benediction, remnants of the underlying Tancred follis can be seen in the letters IC below the figure of Christ and near the rim in the lower right quadrant . Reverse : Cross, DNE / SAL / FT / RO (Domine salvum fac tuum Rogerium) in quarters . Metcalf 86ff ; CCS 7 Ex. CNG 139, Lot: 435. ( 05/10/2006 ) ; Ex. The Trappendreher Collection ; Ex. Baldwin's Auction 68 - 28th-29th September 2010 , lot 3803 .

Julian II "the Apostate," February 360 - 26 June 363 A.D Billon double maiorina. 25.8mm / 8.412g 3rd officina, Constantina (Arles, France) mint Obverse : D N FL CL IVLIA-NVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right . Reverse : SECVRITAS REIPVB, bull standing right, two stars above; lower right, eagle standing on wreath, another wreath in beak, TCONST• in exergue . RIC VIII Arles 322 (R), LRBC II 469, SRCV V 19148, Cohen VIII 39 Ex FORVM

Rhodes Under Palaeologan Rule AE 1.4 g Obv : Palaeologan monogram. Rev : Cross , Palaeologan monogram - B in angles. Double struck ? Same dies ? Both sides are almost identical . Can anyone explain how this happened ?

Kievan Rus 11th Century . Chernigov imitation of Byzantine follis . 2.1 g. 1.2 g. 1.8 g. 2 g. 1.8 g.