CRUSADERS. Antioch. Tancred, regent, 1101-1112. Follis (Bronze, 23 mm, 5.07 g, 12 h). Ο / ΠΕ-Τ/P/O/C Nimbate bust of St. Peter facing, raising his right hand in benediction and holding cross in his left. Rev. KЄBOI / ΘHTOΔV / ΛΟCOVT/ ANHPI ('Lord, help your servant Tancred' in Greek) in four lines. CCS 3a. Metcalf, Crusades, 53. Porteous 16. Wäckerlin 79 ff. Light areas of weakness and the reverse struck slightly off center, otherwise, good very fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.

This is probably the earliest issue struck under Tancred, the Prince of Galilee, and it bears the image of Antioch's patron saint, Saint Peter, who was the first Patriarch of Antioch according to early Christian sources and the 9th century Liber Pontificalis.