Effectively: loosely talking! Martin, a buyer and pal, figuring out how I’m in something to do with the Templars and the Crusades, despatched me an incredible ‘retirement reward’ yesterday. These three cash are all of immense historic curiosity and can take satisfaction of place in my assortment: so as they’re:
1) Bronze coin of Titus, commemorating the conquest of Judea: the reverse exhibits two Jewish prisoners both facet of a palm tree.
2) Copper follis of Tancred, chief of the primary Campaign and Regent of Antioch.
3) Silver denarius of Bohemond 111, Prince of Antioch. He was concerned within the Third Campaign, the place he often collaborated with Richard 1st, ‘the Lion Coronary heart’. The reverse exhibits a Templar cross.
What an astonishing reward!
