Frankish copper coin

There are seven different types of copper coin that were minted in Thebes in the thirteenth century, and they can be distinguished based on their iconography and inscriptions. One of the earlier types features a gateway, like this coin, which copies that found on the Genoese denaro, perhaps in order to accommodate trade with the Genoese, many of whom were living in Thebes.

Object type

Coins

Date

Production: 1225 - 1287

Subject(s)

Bearers of the Cross

Associated person

Guy I de la Roche (1205 - 1263)

Inscriptions

obverse: +.DNS.ATheN

reverse: +.ThEB.CIVI

Dimensions

Diameter: 14mm
Weight: 0.45g

Materials and technique

Copper, struck

Production place

Thebes
Greece

References

Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Page 245

Credit line

The Mildred King Memorial Collection.
Gift of Colonel E.J. King, 1935

Catalogue number

ATH2