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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8103088, member: 99456&quot;]I was reminded recently of this excellent post by [USER=74712]@FitzNigel[/USER] from 2016 as I was researching this coin and reading a recent article on the spread of the plague.&nbsp; The author, Hanna Barker, looks to additional sources and challenges the story-line &amp; timeline of Gabriele de’ Mussi.&nbsp; See: Hanna Barker, &quot;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/711596" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://doi.org/10.1086/711596" rel="nofollow">Laying the Corpses to Rest: Grain, Embargoes, and Yersinia pestis in the Black Sea, 1346–48</a>&quot;, Speculum, The journal of the Medieval Academy of America, Volume 96, Number 1, January 2021, University of Chicago Press.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2021-12-13_20-36-39-png.1408974/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>Genoese Caffa, Filippo Maria Visconti </b>(AD 1421-1435), AR Asper. 0.77g, 15mm.</p><p><b>Obv: </b>DV_M.D.:CAF; the arms of Genoa in a beaded oval of four arches, three dots to side and below of portal.</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Small Jujid tamga with 1 dot - tamga of the ruling Mongol Khan. Circular Arabic legend, السلطان العادل محمد خان (The Just Ruler, Muhammad Khan).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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