Outremer (Crusaders, the Latin East), Kingdom of Cyprus, Henry II (1285-1324), gros, 1310-1324, Famagusta or Nicosia mint.
Obv. hEnRI-REIDE; king facing, crowned and mantled, holding a sceptre resting on his right shoulder, and raising a globe cruciger in his left hand, sits on a backless throne, with arms ending in lion heads; star at his right elbow.
Rv. +IERVSAL’MED’ChIPR’; Jerusalem cross.
Silver, 4.56 g, 27.4 mm. Metcalf 676-682.
Grade: XF, large parts of lustre, toned; weakly struck in the middle.
The legend of the coin is entirely French (in France, the French language appeared on coins only in the late sixteenth century).
