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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 5167371, member: 56653&quot;]Three denier tournois of Morea minted ca. 1346-1350s for Robert de Taranto as Angevin Prince of Achaea:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1210588[/ATTACH]</p><p>3xAR17/18mm, left to right: 0.80g, 0.70g, 0.80g billon denier tournois, minted in Glarentza/Corinth, cca. 1346 and later.</p><p>+ ROBT P&#039; AChЄ / ROBT P AChAIЄ (spec 3); cross pattee, first spec with pellet in 2nd quarter.</p><p>+ CLARЄNCIA / DЄ CLARЄNCIA (spec 3); chateau tournois.</p><p>cf. Maloy 65-70.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Notes:</b> These deniers tournois did not appear in context prior to 1346 so it is assumed that they were minted after this date (Malloy p. 355, Lambros apud Tzamalis p. 110) probably under the authority of Niccolo Acciaioli, the most important baron and seneschal of Morea at the time. This group is part of a collection (and probably a hoard) of deniers tournois offered by Lanz at the beginning of July 2018. The coins are well preserved and with the exception of number 3 (which seems to date from the first issue of the tournois under Robert in 1346), they were probably struck in the late 1340s and early 1350s and deposited soon afterwards, during the anarchy days of the late 1350s.</p><p><br /></p><p>This group is interesting also as a sample of the coins of Robert which were offered by Lanz at this particular point and, if part of the same hoard or a group of similar hoards, representative of the monetary circulation in Frankish Greece during the 1350s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin 3 is rather rare and stands out as better struck than the others. According to Tzamalis tho, all tournois coins of Robert are rather scarce.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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