- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- Production: 1278 - 1289
- Associated person
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Charles I of Naples (c. 1226 - 1285)
Charles II of Naples (1254 - 1309) - Subject(s)
- Bearers of the Cross
- Inscriptions
-
obverse: +.K.R PRINC'ACH' (between two circles)
reverse: +.CLARENTIA.
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 18.5mm
Weight: 1g - Materials and technique
- Silver, struck
- Production place
-
Corinth
Greece - References
-
Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Page 258 - Credit line
-
The Mildred King Memorial Collection.
Gift of Colonel E. J. King, 1935. - Catalogue number
- ACH26
Denier Tournois of Charles I and/or II of Naples
Deniers tournois were first issued in Achaia by William of Villehardouin (1246 - 1278) in the 1260s. Two types are attributed to him and there appears to have been two mints active in making them: one at Corinth and the other at Clarentza.