CRUSADERS. Crusader Imitations of Islamic Dirhams. Dirham (Silver, 22 mm, 3.12 g, 4 h), imitating an Ayyubid dirham of al-Salih Ismaiʿl (AH 635 / AD 1237 and AH 637-643 / AD 1239-1245) from Dimashq (Damascus), probably struck in ʿAkka (Acre) in Palestine, AD 1253. Citing the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Mustansir billah (AH 623-640 / AD 1226-1242) within a square, ‘al-Imām / al-Mustanṣir / billāh Abū Jaʿfar / al-Manṣūr amīr al-muʾminīn’ (‘Imam al-Mustansir billah Abu Jaʿfar al-Mansur, Commander of the Believers’ in deteriorated Arabic); in the margin, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in deteriorated Arabic). Rev. Within a square, ‘al-malik al-Ṣāliḥ / ʿImād al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn / Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Bakr’ (‘King al-Salih ʿImad al-Dunya wa al-Din Ismaʿil son of Abu Bakr’ in deteriorated Arabic); mint and date formula in the margin, ‘ḍuriba bi Di[mashq] / sana alf wa / miʾatayn wa / thalāth wa khamsīn’ (‘Struck in Dimashq in the year 1253’ in deteriorated Arabic). Album 849.2. Rare. Struck on a slightly short flan and with some corrosion on the obverse, otherwise, about extremely fine.