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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 7773915, member: 56653&quot;]I think they are Acciaioli coinage from ca. 1388-90 -- the look of the alloy and the gothic lettering match very well with the specimen I posted here on March 1st 2020. </p><p><br /></p><p>My hunch is that these billon tornesi from the Acciaioli were meant to circulate in Italy also, as it had happened for the earlier coinages of Athens and Achaea after Guillaume de Villehardouin entered Angevin vassality. After 1400 the coinage seems to become copper and strictly local, and copper tornesi seem to be imported from Italy as late as the 1460s-1470s (the tornesi of Nicola di Monforte), so even after Ottoman conquest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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