CRUSADERS. Crusader Imitations of Islamic Dirhams. Dirham (Silver, 20 mm, 2.89 g, 10 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. 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 Dimashq / sana alf wa / [miʾatayn wa thalāth] / wa khamsīn’ (‘Struck in Dimashq in the year 1253’ in deteriorated Arabic). Rev. 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, ‘bism / Allāh / [al-raḥmān] / al-raḥīm’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful’ in deteriorated Arabic). Album 849.2. Rare. Struck on a slightly short flan and with minor corrosion on the obverse, otherwise, about extremely fine.