ABSTRACT
Documents and material-coin evidence about minting in Crusader states, particularly of the Kingdom of Jerusalem is substantial. A handful of documents contain information about the physical location of a mint or mint workshop in the larger cities of the Jerusalem Kingdom and the Northern Principalities. A comparison with contemporary minting traditions in the West and East show that the kings of Jerusalem but also the rulers of Antioch and Tripoli exercised relatively strict control over the production of coinages. The appearance in Latin charters of a cohesive social group of moneyers in the Frankish East indicated that many of these moneyers were Western immigrants that set up workshops there. Like their Western counterparts many of them belonged to the upper ranks of urban burgess society and were active in the larger cities and towns of the Latin East where the demand for striking coin and money changing was the highest.
