CRUSADERS. Crusader Imitations of Islamic Dirhams. Dirham (Silver, 21 mm, 3.00 g, 10 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. Areas of weakness, otherwise, extremely fine.