SOLID GOLD Seal or Token AV Crusader Coin Artifact Jerusalem Crosses Virgin Mary

SOLID GOLD Seal or Token AV Crusader Coin Artifact Jerusalem Crosses Virgin Mary. Possibly the earliest form of Crusader Currency? According to art historian Richard Muther The Virgin Mary was central to Crusader Art. The youthful mother of God, became the centre of worship. The adoration of Mary reflected in part the knightly reverence for woman felt by the Crusaders and the Minnesingers; but it is also due to her personality, which, in its tender, helpless womanhood, was more sympathetic to the sentiment of the age than the tragic figure of the Son of God and the severe majesty of the Father.

Provenance Documents will be provided. Bronze, 0.90 g, 14 mm.