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. February 12. Perugia. Pope Innocent IV writes to the [cardinal-]bishop of Tusculum (Frascati) and papal legate [Eudes de Châteauroux], relating that he received his report on Christians of Acre and Tripoli who, despite the Church’s prohibitions, mint coins with the name and year from the birth of Muhammad. The legate promulgated a sentence of excommunication against all those who, from now on, mint besants and dirhams (dragmis), whether in gold or silver, in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Principality of Antioch and the County of Tripoli. Since it is not just unworthy, but even abominable, to commit such a blasphemous name to solemn memory, the pope orders the legate to have his sentence observed without violation.