Neopolitan Princes of Eprius and Corfu: Philippe de Taranto (1294-1313) Denier

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Quant.Geek

A bit of a dabble into the complicated coinage of Frankish Greece. Most of these coins have some connection to Byzantium. For instance, Philippe de Taranto married Tamar, the daugher of Nicephorus and Anna Palaeologina and received Lepanto (or Nepanti as the Franks called it) as part of her dowry...

Neopolitan Princes of Eprius and Corfu: Philippe de Taranto (1294-1313) BI Denier (CCS 113)

Obv: Cross pattée; ✠ ⦂ Ph'S PΛCh' TAR D'R
Rev: Châtel tournois, ⚜ below; ✠ ⚜ NEPANTI CIVIS


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Tirant

What an amazing piece! I love these frankish eastern coins.

That's not its only connection to Byzantium; due to his marriage with Catherine of Valois-Courtenay (his second marriage, after Tamar) he became latin emperor of Constantinople (even if the Byzantine empire was restored, the title of latin emperor remained for several years).

Quant.Geek

Quote from: Tirant on October 25, 2022, 07:26:03 AMWhat an amazing piece! I love these frankish eastern coins.

That's not its only connection to Byzantium; due to his marriage with Catherine of Valois-Courtenay (his second marriage, after Tamar) he became latin emperor of Constantinople (even if the Byzantine empire was restored, the title of latin emperor remained for several years).

That is correct! This particular period was very much interwoven with the families of Palaeologus and Doukas across the region. Here is another type:

Neopolitan Princes of Eprius and Corfu: Philippe de Taranto (1294-1313) BI Denier (CCS 111b)
Obv: Cross pattée; ✠ ⦂ Ph'S PΛCh' TAR D'R
Rev: Châtel tournois; ✠ ⚜ NEPANTI CIVIS


A gallery of my coins can been seen at FORVM Ancient Coins

Figleaf

They remind me of Robinson Crusoe. Here's another guy in a strange environment, trying to change it to resemble the world he knows, here with coins that anyone living in Western Europe would have recognised immediately.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

Pellinore

Here is a coin much like it, but the style is a bit different. Could it be a contemporary imitation or is this the same type?

Weight 0.62g, 19mm.

-- Paul

Taranto w.jpg

Manzikert

A slightly later one I think, with the legend PhS P ACH TAR D R, 'Philip, prince of Achaia [and] Taranto, Despot of Romania' if I've got it right.

Alan