Coin of Philip of Taranto

One of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire was Epirus on the western coast of Greece. Philip of Taranto, who would later become the prince of Achaia (1307) and the Latin emperor of Constantinople (1313), was given the port of Lepanto (Naupaktos, Greece) in 1294 as part of his wife Thamar’s, daughter of the despot of Epirus, dowry.

Object type

Coins

Date

Production: 1294 - 1313

Associated person

Epirus Philip of Taranto (1313 - 1331)

Subject(s)

Bearers of the Cross

Inscriptions

obverse: +'Ph'S.P.TAR DESP:

reverse: .NEPANTI CIVIS.

Dimensions

Diameter: 19mm
Weight: 0.76g

Materials and technique

Billon, struck

Production place

Lepanto
Western Greece

References

Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Pages 270 - 280

Credit line

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

Catalogue number

LE2