Conveners
S67. MIDDLE AGES 5. 12TH-13TH CENTURIES, THE MEDITERRANEAN
- Luca Gianazza (Independent Researcher)
The hyperpyra of John III Vatatzès of Nicaea were imitated in such quantity that the Florentine merchant Francesco Pegolotti noted them as "latin" gold hyperpyra. In 2000 Ernest Oberländer-Tȃrnoveanu published guidelines on how to recognize the imitations, based on a Romanian hoard. This paper presents additional guidance for identifying "latin" imitations and distinguishing them from modern...
The aim of this paper is to present for the first time a new Byzantine coin hoard which was discovered in Bayindir. The hoard consists of 113 billon trachea. The paper demonstrates the significance of the hoard with reference to its overstrikes, and to the numerical predominance of Theodore I Lascaris’ Second Coinage, which is abundant in Turkish hoards and almost absent from Greek deposits....
The analysis of the written sources and finds will be used to propose a preliminary overview of the circulation of the coinage of Lucca north of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. Traditionally the territory of Emilia-Romagna has been regarded as an area of overlap of two different "monetary areas" which emerged in the eleventh century when mints began to strike coins with different types....
