CRUSADERS. County of Tripoli. Bohémond IV of Antioch to Bohémond VII, 1187-1287. Bezant (Gold, 23 mm, 4.16 g, 12 h), imitation of a gold dinar of the Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir Abu Tamim Maʿadd (AH 427-487 / AD 1036-1094) struck in Tarabulus (Tripoli), AH 465 = AD 1072/3. Within a circle, ‘ʿAlī / lā ilāha illā Allāh / waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / walī Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Ali is the friend of Allah’ in deteriorated Arabic); in the margin, ‘Muḥammad rasūl Allāh arsalahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih wa law kariha al-mushrikūn’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. He sent him with guidance and the religion of truth, so that He may make it overcome all religions, even though the unbelievers may dislike it’ in deteriorated Arabic). Rev. Within a circle, ‘Maʿadd / ʿabd Allāh wa waliyyuhū / al-imām Abū Tamīm / al-Mustanṣir billāh / amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘The servant of Allah and His friend, Imam Abu Tamim al-Mustansir billah Maʿadd, Commander of the Believers’ in deteriorated Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi Ṭarābulus sana khams wa sittīn wa arbaʿa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. This dinar was struck in Tarabulus in the year 465’ in deteriorated Arabic). Album 720. Rare. Slightly wavy and with some scratches, otherwise, very fine.