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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 7884906, member: 56653&quot;]A later issue for Florent d&#039;Avesnes-Hainaut at Glarentza in Morea, with a very interesting reverse die -- the last A of&nbsp; + DЄ CLARЄNCIA has been worked to become a hollowed cross:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359993[/ATTACH]</p><p>AR19mm, 0.6g, billon denier tournois, 262/1000, minted at Glarentza/Corinth(?), cca. 1296/7.</p><p>+ FLORЄNS ꞏ P ꞏ ACh; Cross pattee</p><p>+ DЄ ꞏ CLARЄNCI ꞏ ✙; chateau tournois, cross over/instead of the last A of the legend</p><p>cf. Malloy 13a, Metcalf (MN, 1971) pp. 182, 201; Saulcy XV, 1, Tzamalis Elis/1964 Hoard p. 272 FH A(?)</p><p><br /></p><p>J. Baker totally rejects the possibility of two mints official operating in the Principality of Achaea after ca. 1260s, a hypothesis that Tzamalis favored as it could easily explain the different spire shapes of the chateau tournois on the reverse. In his latest and greatest work, Coinage and Money in Medieval Greece 1200-1430, Baker assigns all tournois issues from Guillaume II to Robert de Tarento to a single main mint in Glarentza, with a continuous output of coinage that would put to shame the French feudal mints of Alphonse de France and Charles d&#039;Anjou not to mention the smaller operations of the 14th century -- La Marche, Poitou, Bourgogne, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>While Tzamalis&#039;s explanation is subjectively elegant, the amount of data that Baker oversees in his search for patterns of distribution inside Greece that would point to a multi-polar minting scenario simply does not confirm it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, the best (i.e. most conservative and safe) approach is to keep both perspectives in mind. A small-scale issue (like for instance this here) is easier to tie to specific historical events if we consider just one main mint -- in this case, the death of Florent during his Arcadian campaign very early in 1297 and the government passing to Isabelle de Villehardouin, under which a great reform of the coinage was underway at Glarentza, which possibly took 2 years to be established.</p><p><br /></p><p>A residual issue for Florent might have still been issued after January 1297.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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