Crusader Imitations of Islamic Dirhams. Circa 1251-1291 CE. Dirham (Silver, 21 mm, 2.36 g, 1 h), Type I.I (bism Allāh in margin), 1253, Akka (Acre, naming Dimashq), CE 1253, probably struck circa 1253-1260. Field within square, in three lines: al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ / ʿImād al-Dunyā wa-l-Dīn / Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Bakr (‘The righteous king, pillar of the world and the faith, Ismāʿīl son of Abī Bakr’ in Arabic); in margin in four segments: ḍuriba bi-Dimashq / sana alf wa- / miʾatayn wa-thalāth wa- / khamsīn (‘Struck at Dimashq in the year one thousand two hundred and fifty-three’ in Arabic). Rev. Field within square, in three lines: al-imām al-Mustanṣir / bi-llāh Abū Jaʿfar / al-Manṣūr amīr al-muʾminīn (‘The Imam al-Mustanṣir bi-llāh, Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr, Commander of the Believers’ in Arabic); in margin in four segments: bi-sm / Allāh / al-raḥmān / al-raḥīm (‘In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate’ in Arabic). Balog/Yvon 38. Bates Type V. CCS 9. Jeselsohn IV 673. Metcalf, Crusades 234-235. Zeno 73823 (this coin). Rare. With legible mint and date. Some deposits, small marks and minor areas of weakness, otherwise, good very fine.