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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |Crusaders| > CR88460
Crusaders, Frankish Greece, Despotate of Epirus, Philip I of Taranto, 1294 - 1313
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Philip received Lepanto in 1294 as a dowry from his wife Thamar. The obverse legend abbreviates Philippus princeps Traranti, despatus. This legend was used before Philip assumed the title Princeps Achaie, c. 1307. Philip_I_of_Taranto
CR88460. Billon denier tournois, Metcalf Crusades DR1(c), pl. 43, 1195, Malloy CCS 111b, VF, toned, small edge chip, Lepanto (Nafpaktos, Greece) mint, weight 0.667g, maximum diameter 18.9mm, die axis 270o, c. 1294 - 1306; obverse ⚜ + ⚜ Ph'S P TAR DESP: (Philippus princeps Taranti, despatus; angular letters), cross pattée within inner border; reverse INEPANTI CIVIS (ivy leaf) (angular letters), castle tournois surmounted by cross dividing legend; from the Louis G Estate; SOLD










REFERENCES|

Malloy, A., I.Preston, & A. Seltman. Coins of the Crusader States, 2nd Edition. (New York, 2004).
Metcalf, D. Coinage of the Crusaders and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford. (London, 1995).
Metcalf, D. "The Pylia Hoard: Denier Tournois of Frankish Greece" in MN 17 (New York, 1971).
Schlumberger, G. Numismatique de l'Orient latin. (1878; supplement 1882; reprinted: Graz, 1954).
Tzamalis, A. "The first period of the Frankish tornesio. New evidence from an old hoard" in NK 9-10 (1990-1).


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