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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 3748839, member: 56653&quot;]Without a thorough quantitative study of the hoard and of the particularities of specific coins apart from this spec, it is rather hard to be sure of a certain date. Especially when its composition is made of Greek tournois and hybrid imitations, either of the likes of the Acciaioli Athens or of Italian mints. Coins minted for Florent d&#039;Avesnes at Glarentza or Corinth in the 1290s were still in circulation in the baronies of the Kingdom of Naples as late as 1464 and were the blueprints for the minting of coinage during the Angevin revolt. And the import of Achaean coinage to Southern Italy continued at least through the reign of Robert de Taranto to the 1360s, while the import of Acrocorinth tournois of Athens from the Acciaioli period starts in the 1390s. As a matter of fact, the tournois I tentatively assigned to Jacques des Baux and his bid as Prince of Morea in 1381-1383 a couple of years ago comes from an old Italian collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Long story short, when dealing with Italian finds, coins that at a first glance might look like normal Greek tournois, could be in fact: a. later hybrids or b. coins circulating for a long time after their presumed minting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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