Antioch Denier - Bohemond - which one

Hello,

Can you help to ID this coin. I see some possible variants on Numista.

Bohemond III or IV? What is majority and minority? Which type I have?

Thank you

Sorry I can't help, but I am posting here to see notifications of this thread.

Since I had 3 of those, I researched a lot online, I do not have the metcalf catalog but everything I found is a lot bland, inconclusive, shallow. . All Bohemund have same legend, and there are infinite types, how would any researcher know which one is which.

I guess there are so many variations that in reallity, no one really knows anything.

I don't have a copy of Metcalf either, though I see it's available at a university library not too far from me.

I will make a wild guess that maybe the letterforms are used to some extent in determining the classes.  Yours has the A with the top bar tippped with pellets, and on other letters (and the crosson the helmet) the long diagonal serifs that look like tails, so maybe look for a subtype with those chracteristics?

I think this one is a very close match:  https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11258476

Same letterforms for the A, and for the distinctive “elongated” S in BOAMVNDVS.  

Bohemond III took the throne around 1160 when he was only 12 years old ("minority" before we was of age to rule on his own). I think 1163 was when he came into his “majority.” (Wikipedia).

Please add to the catalog!   I would just title it Denier - Bohemond IV or Bohemond V, Class O (we don;t need tete casquee since they are all this style anyhow).

We could clean up this section and get consistent nomenclature.

Thank you. 

Yes, seems to be quite a similar.

This section needs to be cleaned and structured, yes, and someone shall add a description of classes and meaning of majority|minority:)

Will add it to the catalogue