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Medieval coin – HCR70435

Obverse

Inscription:

P[hS P] ACh TAR

Design:

cross potent

Reverse

Inscription:

DE CLAR[E]NCIA

Design:

castle tournois, F to left and right

Information

Period

Medieval

Category

Frankish Greek denier tournois

Group

PTΓ

Authority

Achaia: principality

Person

Philip of Taranto, prince of Achaia, despot of Romania, 1304/6-1313 and 1296/8-1314

Dating

1311-1313 or 1314-1315

Mint

Clarentza (Medieval)

Denomination

denier tournois

Metal

billon

Technique

struck

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

0.8

Diameter (mm)

18.6

Acquisition method

gift

Acquisition collection reference

Seaby hoard

Acquisition date

1991

Source

Eve Stewart ex. J.R. Stewart

Hoard name

Seaby

Reference

G. Schlumberger - 1878 - Numismatique de l'Orient latin : pl. XII.21

Reference

A. Tzamalis - 1994 - To Eurema tes Eleias/1964 / The Elis/1964 Hoard : PTΓ

Reference

A.G. Malloy, I.F. Preston, A.J. Seltman - 1994 - Coins of the Crusader States : p. 365, no. 28

Reference

D.M. Metcalf - 1995 - Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford : p. 265, PT3

Reference

A. Tzamalis - 2016 - Coins of the Frankish Occupation of Greece 1184-1566 : p. 273, PTΓ

Reference

J. Baker - 2021 - Coinage and Money in Medieval Greece 1200-1430 : p. 1409, PTΓ

Contributors to this coin record

jmairat, nristovska, jbaker