- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- Production: 1474 - 1489
- Subject(s)
- Bearers of the Cross
- Associated person
- Subject: Catherine Cornaro (1454 - 1510)
- Inscriptions
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obverse: + KATERINA : [VE]NETA : REGIN :
reverse: +IERVSALEM . CIPRI . ET . ARMIAE
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 24mm
Weight: 2.87g - Materials and technique
- Silver, struck
- Production place
- Cyprus
- Related place(s)
- Cyprus
- Themes
- The Queen and queens of the Crusades
- References
-
Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Pages 222 - 224 - Credit line
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The Mildred King Memorial Collection.
Gift of Colonel E.J. King, 1935 - Catalogue number
- C262
Gros grand of Catherine Cornaro
Towards the end of the thirteenth century, the gros grand was introduced as a new denomination of currency to replace the Byzantine influenced white bezant. The image of the king on these coins does not follow the Byzantine style that had previously been used, and instead the king, or in this case the queen, is now shown enthroned in a western style.