Denomination: Gold Dinar (or Bezant).
Mint: The exact location of minting of this series is uncertain, but most likely it was the city of Acre.
Date: This coin is from the 2rd phase in this series, thought to have been struck between about AD 1148 and 1187.
Reference: Coinage in the Crusader States -page 116, #3 is the closest match. The prototype coin being imitated is a fatamid dinar of Al-Amir of Misr (Cairo), Album type 730.
Size: 21.0 x 21.8 mm.
Weight: 3.48 grams.
Grade: aXF, with a fairly good strike.
Obverse and Reverse: Pseudo Arabic inscriptions, but are in part well enough engraved to be legible.
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