Coin of Geoffrey II de Villehardouin or William de Villehardouin

The first coins struck by the Latin princes in Achaia were copper and were produced at the mint in Corinth from around 1250. There were two issues: an earlier type inscribed CORINTUM that appears to have been minted in the 1250s; and a later type that reads CORINTI from the 1260s and 1280s. The first features a large fortified gateway surmounted with a cross, like this example, compared to the latter which have a small tower resembling the Genoese gateway.

Object type

Coins

Date

Production: 1218 - 1278

Associated person

Geoffrey II of Villehardouin (c. 1195 - 1246)
William de Villehardouin (c. 1211 - 1278)

Subject(s)

Bearers of the Cross

Inscriptions

obverse: G.P. ACCAIE

reverse: +.CORINTUM

Dimensions

Diameter: 17.5mm
Weight: 0.84g

Materials and technique

Copper, struck

Production place

Corinth
Greece

References

Metcalf, David Michael. Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1995.
Page 248

Credit line

The Mildred King Memorial Collection.
Gift of Colonel E.J. King, 1935.

Catalogue number

ACH3