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English: Seal of King w:Aimery of Cyprus (†1205).

The obverse depicts Aimery crowned and seated on a throne, holding an orb and sceptre. The inscriptions reads:

+ AIMERICVS DEI GRA[TIA] REX IER[USA]L'M ET CIPRI (Aimery, by the grace of God king of Jerusalem and Cyprus)

The reverse depicts three main monuments of Jerusalem: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Tower of David and the Dome of the Rock. The inscriptions reads:

+ CIVITAS · REGIS · REGVM OMNIVM (the city of the king of all kings)
Source Taken from Gustave-Léon Schlumberger, "Quelques sceaux de l'Orient latin au moyen âge", Mémoires de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France, 64 (1903): 253–73, at 262. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k408253g/f279.item.zoom
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