★ An Interesting Overstruck ★

Tancred AD 1101-1112. Antioch
Follis Æ

21mm., 4,09g.

+ ΚΕ ΒΟ [...] around, cuirassed bust of Tancred facing, wearing turban with cross and holding sword in his right hand / Cross pommée, fleuronée at base, in angles, IC XC [NI]-KA.

very fine

Malloy 4a; Metcalf, Crusades, 65; Porteous 17; Wäckerlin 85ff. From The Tareq Hani collection

An Interesting Overstruck on a follis of first type (Metcalf 49ff.) The inscription KEBOI / ΘH TO .. from the first type (Metcalf 49ff.) still being clearly visible on right of the Obv. of this Interesting Overstruck follis.