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Message:: [QUOTE="seth77, post: 7751260, member: 56653"]My main interest regarding medieval coinage is the denier tournois with its many incarnations and multitude of local variations. Like these: - a very small flan tornese (15mm, 0.4g perhaps a half-tornese) minted by Nicola II di Monforte for his role in the Congiura dei Baroni (1459-1464), early on in 1461, with full silvering and very good style and dies; half-tornesi are not recorded for these "war money" issues: [ATTACH=full]1327139[/ATTACH] - an immobilization of the tornese of Arta, ca. 1325/9-1330 for Giovanni II Orsini (di Cephalonia), Despot of Epiros; these copper tornesi ended up being heavily imitated in Bulgaria, especially radiating from Vidin for the small commerce on the Danube line, around the mid 14th century and even to the 15th century (Coinage and Money in Medieval Greece 1200-1430, p. 1474-1476); as an interesting feature this spec has CASTRA on the reverse in boustrophedon: [ATTACH=full]1327143[/ATTACH] A fun connection between the two very late and heavily debased tornesi/tournois is the fact that the Orsinis gave the last Prince of Taranto - Giovanni Antonio Orsini-del Balzo (des Baux) - who rebelled against the Aragonese rule of Naples (il Regno) alongside the likes of Nicola II and Giacomo da Montagano, fighting together for the Angevin party in 1461-1463.[/QUOTE]