226 Baker
writers to assess its significance also in monetary terms.30 More recently there
was a conference at Dumbarton Oaks on the Latin Morea which resulted in
a contribution on money,31 and another in Argos in May 2011 on coinage in
the Peloponnese.32 Finally, as part of a large-scale project on Italian mints, the
main mints of medieval Greece were considered in the colonial section with
the justification that they were ultimately under the authority of the Angevin
crown of Sicily (Naples).33 Our state of knowledge of the numismatic sources
relating to money in medieval Greece is therefore such that we are now in a
much better position than merely a generation ago to integrate these with the
historical sources and the general historiography of this area, which has itself
progressed enormously in recent years.34
Coin Finds of Medieval Greece 35
Coins of medieval Greece have been found individually or as hoards. These
finds are reflections of contemporary coin usage, but at a remove, and the
Sansevero (1461–1463), (Termoli, 1997). Further, Serbia: Vujadin Ivanišević; Chios: Andreas
Mazarakis; France: Jean Duplessy; England: Jeffrey P. Mass.
30 See the three contributions by Cécile Morrisson, Cécile Morrisson and Pagona
Papadopoulou, and Lucia Travaini.
31 Baker and Stahl, “Morea”.
32 The proceedings will contain many precious contributions on medieval coin finds. The
new and old evidence was summarized in the keynote address, Baker and Galani-Krikou,
“Δυτικός μεσαίων στην Πελοπόννησο”.
33 See the individual lemmata of Baker in Lucia Travaini, ed., Guida per la storia delle zecche
italiane medievali e moderne ( fino all’Unità) (Rome, 2011).
34 Unfortunately, despite its promising title, I cannot recommend the contribution by
Georgios Ploumidis, “Η νομισματική αγορά κατά τη λατινοκρατία” [“The Money Market
under Latin Rule”], Σύμμεικτα 9 (1994), 265–78.
35 Hoards of medieval Greece have been listed in Alex Malloy et al., Coins of the Crusader
States, 1098–1291, (New York, 1994); David M. Metcalf, Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin
East in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, 2nd ed. (London, 1995), and, regarding coins of
the Byzantine tradition now in the Athens Numismatic Museum, Galani-Krikou et al.,
Σύνταγμα. There are no comprehensive inventories of single finds. See, in this regard,
merely the extensive but now outdated discussion in David M. Metcalf, Coinage in South-
Eastern Europe 820–1396 (London, 1979), and, for the Peloponnese, Baker and Stahl,
“Morea”. All other, more up-to-date information on both hoards and single finds needs to
be gathered from the bibliography discussed in the last discussion and listed at the end of
this volume.