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Contribution on the circulation of venetian grossi of the 13th and 14th C. in Greece : inspired by a hoard

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• Γαλάνη - Κρίκου, Μίνα

The nature of the Venetian possessions in Greece after 1204, a land with which they were well acquainted, was a singular one. The Venetians contented themselves with retaining strategic sites in order to promote trade interests that directly concerned them.Together with the Byzantine subdenominations, the “deniers tournois”, cut by the Frankish rulers in the different mints they established in Greece, and with the other Venetian coins circulating throughout the Mediterranean sea a major position was occupied by the “grosso”, the strong, pure silver coin of the Republic of Venice.It had arrived in Greece by the beginning of the 13th century, but from theevidence of hoards and individual finds, its wider circulation dates from the middle of the 13th to the middle of the 14th centuries, and its geographical distribution covered Thrace, Macedonia, Central and Western Greece, the Peloponnese and Crete. Of particular interest for the presence of the “grosso” in Greece are the hoards found in northern Greece and the regions of the “Despotate” of Epirus; their study was prompted by the hoard discovered at Ayios Andreas in Attica in 1937 and brought to the Numismatic Museum by A. Orlandos, in the course of his restoration work in the chapel (metochi) of the monastery of Agia Philothei the Athenean.

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