- Co 64 (Genoese denaro of Dorino I Gattilusio from Mytilene) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- 1455
- Not before (date)
- 1428
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- Lunardi1980, pp. 264-265, no. G13 (mint of Mytilene and Ainos)
- Comparanda
- Schlumberger1878, p. 442, pl. XVI:35
- Preservation comment
- Wear: VF. Slight chipping and pitting along edge and on both faces; surficial gouging across obverse upper right; large patches of thin bronze disease across both faces.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, no. 1245, p. 80 (R. Hohlfelder; published as “Uncertain, Frankish“)
- Axis (1-12)
- 12
- Has denomination
- Denaro
- Numismatic Authority
- Dorino Gattilusio (lord of Lesbos, 1428-1455)
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 16.0
- Numismatic Mint
- Mytilene
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 1.4
- Obverse Description
- Crest of the Palaiologoi in dotted border: tetragrammatic cross (Greek cross with dimpled arms and betas or firesteels in angles); name of lord surrounding; all within thin dotted border
- Obverse Inscription
- ✠ DORƗnVS ✶ TOMƗn
- Reverse Description
- Two-headed eagle facing with escutcheon of the Gattilusi (scale pattern) on chest
- Reverse Inscription
- To lower left and right, D – M
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Frankish (Historical Period)
- Material
- Billon (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Eagle (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“Co 64 (Genoese denaro of Dorino I Gattilusio from Mytilene).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/co0064>
