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Denier - Raymond de Poitiers Beardless
| Issuer | Principality of Antioch |
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| Year | 1136-1149 |
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| Currency | Denier (1098-1268) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, beardless bust of Raymond de Poitiers facing right in profile, depicted within a beaded inner circle. The effigy is rendered in a simplified Crusader style with visible facial features including a defined eye and chin. A Latin legend surrounds the inner circle in the outer field. |
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| Reverse description | A plain Greek cross with equal arms centered within a beaded inner circle, the arms extending nearly to the border of the circle. The surrounding outer field carries a Latin legend identifying the mint city. The overall style is characteristic of Crusader hammered coinage of the twelfth century. |
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Raymond of Poitiers, younger son of William IX of Aquitaine, arrived in Antioch in 1136 by a calculated deception — he had been invited ostensibly to marry the young heiress Constance, but the betrothal was arranged in secret and rushed through before the girl's mother, Alice, could intervene politically. His thirteen-year reign ended at the Field of Artah in 1149, where Nur ad-Din's forces killed him and, by some accounts, sent his head to the Caliph in Baghdad. The "beardless" attribution distinguishes this type from a later variant, a refinement codified in Metcalf's corpus to separate die families that had previously been grouped together.