Medieval European coin [solved]

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Found this one in FB.
Just this side, no reverse ( or obverse ? )

What is it?
Thanks in advance

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No picture? :°
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Looks like a Crusader coin (Cyprus) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces71406.html
If it is real, it is in amazing condition.
The crusaders themselves did not have money.
But they did transport the money of the templar knights
Non est totum quod splendet ut aurum
Rijkdom bestaat niet uit het hebben van veel bezittingen, maar in het hebben van weinig behoeften
Quote: "Spookie"​Looks like a Crusader coin (Cyprus) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces71406.html
​If it is real, it is in amazing condition.
​They might haven't reach ierusal'm ?
Referee of south atlantic islands
I really don't see the problem in calling a coin from the Crusader States a Crusader coin.
I just don't see Jerusalem writen on this coin
Referee of south atlantic islands
Perhaps something like this ?:
HENRIC IRH'M (ET) CIPR REX
Henricus Ierusalem et Ciphre rex

http://www.psdetecting.com/Paul-Shields-Metal-Detecting-Website.shtml
Non est totum quod splendet ut aurum
Rijkdom bestaat niet uit het hebben van veel bezittingen, maar in het hebben van weinig behoeften
Impressive :8D
It's quite unique in this french house of Lusignan.

The name is written on the reverse (8

So it can't be a coin of Henri II !
It's a coin of his brother, the usurper Amaury II de Lusignan :8D with on the obverse face AMALRIC GVB'NATOR CIPRL and the cyprus lion. This "gros" was cast on 1306 during the first year of his very short reign.

It's a so rare coin that you can't find any picture of it.
A genuine coin would cost an arm and a leg!
Referee of south atlantic islands
Strange, I think I can read HENRIC

Here is some info about that Amaury:
http://www.persee.fr/doc/bec_0373-6237_1860_num_21_1_445707?q=amaury
Non est totum quod splendet ut aurum
Rijkdom bestaat niet uit het hebben van veel bezittingen, maar in het hebben van weinig behoeften
You read "HENRIC" indeed !

During the usurpation of the throne by Amaury, the currency was struck with a type quite different. We read on these precious coins the name of the usurper followed by the title of gubernator he got from 1304 to 1310. We know from Amaury the "gros" and the "demi gros" but all of an extraordinary rarity. There are at most a dozen copies in Europe.
The first type, that is the subject of this thread, is very curious, the issuance of which must have taken place at the beginning of the usurpation of Amaury. It still bears the name of King Henry next to that of his unworthy brother. We only know the "gros" of this type, and not its division or "demi-gros".
These "gros", I said, had to be struck at the beginning of the illegitimate sovereignty of Amaury, when, not yet daring to remove the name of the king his brother, he already placed his name with the simple title of Governor (regent) of Cyprus. When he was fully master of power, he threw away all scrupulousness and issued other "gros", also rare, in which his brother's name does not appear anymore, and where it appears alone with the title of prince of Tyr, governor, regent or rector, and son of the last king.
It has not brought him luck, he was assassinated a few months later.
Referee of south atlantic islands
Thanks for all the info
Non est totum quod splendet ut aurum
Rijkdom bestaat niet uit het hebben van veel bezittingen, maar in het hebben van weinig behoeften
Ooh thank tou dear friends ! very interesting imdeed!

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