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Greece has been the identification of a tornese issue of Manuel ii Palaiologos
(1391–1425) at a Lakonian mint.22
In the wake particularly of Metcalf ’s initial publications, work on the Latin-
style coinages of medieval Greece has gone in a number of directions. Most fun-
damental has been the continued investigation of the typologies of the main
series of deniers tournois, and the publication of coin finds. Distinguished con-
tributions were made by Anastasios Tzamalis, news of whose passing reached
me during the writing of this article. Within the Athens Numismatic Museum,
Eirene Varoucha had published a hoard of English coins from Crete, and Mina
Galani-Krikou was to write widely on coin finds and types, for instance on
the Venetian grosso, on Epirus, or on miscellaneous numismatic finds, nota-
bly from the urban excavations in Thebes. Coins from the American excava-
tions in Ancient Corinth have also been systematically published since the
late 1960s.23 From the late 1980s onwards, as work on the so-called Frankish
Complex began, such material has come to the fore in large quantities and in
the resulting publications Orestes Zervos has made full use of the recent typo-
logical advances, as much as adding his own insights into many of the series,
particularly counterfeit tetartera, the petty denomination issues of Achaea,
and counterfeit deniers tournois. Also in the 1980s, inspired by the arrival in
New York of a particularly large hoard of Venetian torneselli from the island
of Euboea, Alan Stahl began his investigations into this particular currency.
Since then, he has published widely on the numismatics of the later medieval
Aegean, as much as on the mint of Venice itself. Hoards of medieval Greece
keep being published, for instance from Corinth, Messenia, Patras and Larissa,
the Roman Agora in Athens, and Naxos,24 while excavated coins from larger
and smaller sites have been treated in recent decades.25 Medieval jettons from
ancient Corinth have also been accurately identified by Saccocci and Vanni,
22 Julian Baker, “A Coinage for Late Byzantine Morea under Manuel ii Palaiologos (1391–
1425),” Revue Numismatique 162 (2006), 395–416.
23 See Charles K. Williams and Joan Fisher in Hesperia, 40–49 and 53 (1970–1976 and 1984)
and Charles K. Williams and Orestes Zervos in Hesperia, 51–66 (1982–1997).
24 Respectively by Julian Baker, Nikos Kontogiannis, David Michael Metcalf, Julian Baker
and Mina Galani-Krikou, and Lord Stewartby.
25 For Glarenza see the contribution of Demetrios Athanasoulis and Julian Baker. Pylos
in Elis: John E. Coleman. Tigani: Nikolaos B. Dandrakis. Sparta: Roger Bland. Hagios
Stephanos: Richard Janko. Zaraka: Julian Baker. Nemea: Robert C. Knapp and John D.
MacIsaac. Isthmia: Timothy E. Gregory. Kenchreai: Robert L. Hohlfelder. Argos: Julian
Baker. Andros in the Cyclades: Nikos Kontogiannis. Various sites in Athens: Fred Kleiner
and Julian Baker. Panakto in Boeotia: Sharon E.J. Gerstel et al. Doliani in Epirus: Julian
Baker and Gariphalia Metallinou.