weight 3,47 | electrum Ø 22mm. obv. The doge on right kneeling left, facing nimbate St. Marco right on left they hold banner between them AND.DANDVL clockwise to right - S.M.VENETI anticklockwise to left, DVX in upper field to right of banner rev. Nimbate Christ standing facing, right hand raised in benediction, book of gospels in left, nine stars around all within oval frame of dots +TT+PGDATOTV - +I+I+TGDVDAT
Imitation of the zecchino of the Venetian doge Andrea Dandolo (1343-1354). There are different theories when and where these imitative zecchini were minted. Possible it was minted after the Crusade of Smyrna (1344), which brought substantial issues of Andrea Dandolo to the region, inspiring their direct imitation. On the basis of pertinent documentary information, Philip Grierson believed that they were minted at Lesbos in the periode before 1357. A hoard at Phokaia seems to underline such an attribution.
Robert II of Taranto (1319 or early winter 1326 – 10 September 1364), of the Angevin family (House of Anjou), Prince of Taranto (1331–1346), King of Albania (1331–1364), Prince of Achaea (1332–1346), and titular Latin Emperor (1343 or 1346 – 1364). He was the oldest surviving son of Prince Philip I of Taranto (1278–1331) and Empress Catherine II of Valois. In 1332, as a result of an exchange with his uncle John of Gravina, Robert became Prince of Achaea. Because of his youth, authority was effectively exercised by his mother Catherine II of Valois until her death in 1346. At that point Robert inherited the throne of the Latin Empire, and was recognized as emperor by the Latin states of Greece. His actual power, such as it was, remained based upon his authority as prince of Achaea. In Naples, on 9 September 1347 he married Marie of Bourbon, the daughter of Louis I, Duke of Bourbon Constable of Cyprus, but the marriage was childless. When he died on 10 October 1364, his widow attempted to keep the principality for herself and her son from her previous marriage. However, Robert′s younger brother Philip II of Taranto succeeded as the legitimate heir. He died in Naples and was buried there.
cf. Friedberg page 518, no.38a | Ives XIII, 2var. | cf. Gamberini 344 R Minor weak parts. Very interesting cointype. Rare. vf
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