CRUSADERS. Crusader Imitations of Islamic Dirhams. Dirham (Silver, 20 mm, 2.63 g, 12 h), imitating an Ayyubid dirham of al-Salih Ismaiʿl (AH 635 / AD 1237 and AH 637-643 / AD 1239-1245) from Dimashq (Damascus), probably struck in Akka (Acre), 1253. Within a square, ‘[al-]malik al-Ṣāliḥ / ʿImād al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn / Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Bakr’ (‘King al-Salih ʿImad al-Dunya wa al-Din Ismaʿil son of Abu Bakr’ in Arabic); mint and date formula in the margin, ‘[ḍuriba bi Dimashq / sana] alf [wa / miʾatayn wa thalāth / wa khamsīn]’ (‘Struck in Dimashq in the year 1253’ in Arabic). Rev. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mustansir billah (AH 623-640 / AD 1226-1242) within a square, ‘al-Imām / al-Mustanṣir / billāh Abū Jaʿfar / [al-Manṣūr amīr al-muʾminīn]’ (‘Imam al-Mustansir billah Abu Jaʿfar al-Mansur, the Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism / [Allāh / al-raḥmān / al-raḥīm]’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful’ in Arabic). Album 849.2. Rare. Struck slightly off center and with areas of weakness, otherwise, good extremely fine.