Reverse: Large cross pattée. Arabic legends. In outer ring: We are glorified by the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ the Messiah from Whom we receive out salvation and life. In inner ring: +: and Resurrection, and through whom we are delivered and…
Obverse
Abbreviated Arabic legends. In central field in two lines: One God. Inner circle: +: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Outer circle: Struck in Acre in the year one thousand two hundred, one and ... from the incarnation of the Messiah.
Crusader silver imitative dirham, mint of Acre, 1252 AD.
Obverse: Christian religious texts, mint and date all in Arabic, with large encircled cross pattée in obverse center
a. Commissioned to mark the return to Eastern Orthodoxy in the Hagia Sophia, bringing an end of 57 years of Roman Catholic usage. It shows the central figure of Christ flanked by the Virgin Mary (left) and John the Baptist (right). The Deësis (in…