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The Silver Coinage of Cyprus, 1285-1382. Corpus of Lusignan Coinage, volume 2 by Metcalf, D. M. and A.G. Pitsillides |
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The Silver Coinage of Cyprus, 1285-1382. Corpus of Lusignan Coinage, volume 2 by Metcalf,
D. M. and A.G. Pitsillides
The Silver Coinage of Cyprus, 1285-1382. Corpus of Lusignan
Coinage, volume 2. Nicosia 1996. Xvi, 314 pages, including 48 plates. Red cloth, with dust
jacket. Book has been printed on high quality glossy paper, large format.
Excellent
corpus and die study of this interesting medieval coinage written by an expert in the
field. D. M. Metcalf along with Professor P. Grierson is one of the greatest scholars in
the field of Medieval and Byzantine numismatics. For table of contents please see bellow.
During the reign of Henry II (1285-1324) a new, large silver coin, inspired by the
French gros tournois, was introduced in Cyprus, and became the standard currency of the
island, replacing the white bezants. The silver gros was worth half a bezant, or 24
deniers. Its half, the gros petit, was worth 12 deniers. This volume is the first to
appear, but the second in order, of a projected three-volume corpus of the coinage of
Cyprus in the Lusignan period. Based on a prolonged study of about 3,500 specimens
world-wide, volume 2 records every known obverse die, and is the definitive work. Anyone
wishing to identify a gros or gros petit of the reigns of Henry II, Amaury, Hugh IV, Peter
I, or Peter II has a 95 percent chance of matching the self-same obverse die, in the 48
high-quality plates on which over 700 chosen specimens are illustrated, in sylloge style.
The survival rate of the fourtheenth century coinage has been exceptionally high, because
Genoese hostilities in the 1470s caused the concealment and non-recovery of many coin
hoards.The 100-page text gives a very detailed analysis of the dies, and cumulatively
offers proof that there were not one but two major mints in fourteenth-century Cyprus, at
Nicosia and Famagusta. The argument is that the patterns created by the stylistic
similarities of the dies, and by dye-links, demonstrate two distinct and coherent
sequences for each reign, which cannot plausibly be placed end-to-end, or even
side-by-side in two workshops of a single mint. There is documentary confirmation of a
mint at Famagusta from the trading account of a Barcelona merchant. It seems that there
was occasionally a third mint, perhaps at Limasol.
CONTENTS
Editorial Foreword
Abbreviations Annotated Bibliography Introduction Procedures for die-identification The
analysis of style The significance of field-marks Henry II. The heavy gros of Henry II
(Plates 1-3) The gros of Henry with Amaury as governor (Plate 3) Amaury alone (Plates 4-5)
Henry II, Series 1A (Plates 6-11) , Series 1B (Plates 12-15) , Series 2 (Plates 16-19)
, field-mark three fleurs-de-lis (Plate 19) Hugh IV, gros with /= and B /= (Plates
20-23) , with /+ and B /+ (Plates 23-29) , with field mark C (Plates 30-31) , gros
in irregular style (Plate 31) Peter I, Types A and Δ, E (Plates 32-34)
, Type Γ (Plates 35-36) , Types Β, ΣT, Z, and H
(Plate 37) , the GRĀC(IĀ types (Plate 37) Rock partridges and the
prince of Antioch: an alternative chronology Peter II, Nicosia mint (Plates 38-42) ,
Famagusta mint (Plates 43-45) , with field-mark R (Plate 46) , with field-mark D
(Plate 47) Light-weight gros of Peter I and Peter II (Plate 48) Appendix: Additional
material from the reign of Peter II Future research |
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