Coins from the Genoese colonies

Genoa started to form colonies of Ligurians in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea in the second half of the 13th century. The Genoese presence was not based on military occupation, but on economic "concessions" of Genoese and Ligurian families associated with the local traders and dominant classes. In the eastern Mediterranean, Genoa was greatly advanced by the Treaty of Nymphaeum (1261) with the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus, which, in exchange for the aid to the Byzantine reconquest of Constantinople, actually ousted the Venetians from the straits leading to the Black Sea. The main Genoese commercial bases were Chios and Mytilene in the Aegean Sea, and Caffa, the major trading center between Mongol-ruled Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Western Europe.
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• Caffa, City of
  • Caffa (Crimea) - Aspr (1266-1475)
• Chios, Lordship of
  • Ducat

Crusader and Christian states in the Eastern Mediterranean › Genoese colonies › Caffa, City of • Caffa (Crimea) - Aspr (1266-1475)

Pul (countermarked Caffa's "Gate")
ND
Copper • 1.7 g • ⌀ 20 mm
Retowski# 5, N# 124774

Pul (countermarked Caffa's "Christogram")
ND (1300-1400)
Copper • 2 g • ⌀ 20 mm
N# 132604

Asper - Hajji Girai
ND (1433-1456)
Silver • 0.67 g • ⌀ 13 mm
N# 354608

1 Asper - Muhammad Khan
ND (1435-1447)
Silver • 0.9 g • ⌀ 16 mm
Retowski# 11, N# 361050

1 Asper - Filippo Maria Visconti
ND (1435-1447)
Silver • 0.9 g • ⌀ 16 mm
Retowski# 34, N# 118895

Crusader and Christian states in the Eastern Mediterranean › Genoese colonies › Caffa, City of • Unspecified currency

1 Ducat - Hieronymus Sauli
ND (1436-1499)
Gold • 3.52 g
N# 331327

1 Asper - Dawlat Berdi
ND (1428-1432)
Silver • 0.63 g • ⌀ 15 mm
A# 2059C, Retowski# 170, N# 370144

Crusader and Christian states in the Eastern Mediterranean › Genoese colonies › Chios, Lordship of • Ducat

1 Denier Tornese - Martin Zaccaria
ND (1324-1339)
Silver • 0.68 g
N# 192699

1 Denier Tornese - Lazaros Giustiniani
ND (1548)
Billon • 0.62 g
N# 192700

¼ Gigliato
ND (1413-1466)
Silver • 0.89 g
N# 192696

2 Denier Tornese
ND (1520)
Silver • 3.95 g
N# 192702

1 Gigliato
ND (1347-1566)
Silver • 3.89 g
Metcalf1# 1163, N# 192698

1 Gigliato
ND (1477-1487)
Silver • 2.56 g
N# 192697

¼ Ducato - Manuele and Paleologo Zaccaria
ND (1307-1310)
Gold • 0.85 g
N# 192701

1 Ducat - Antonio Venier
ND (1354-1382)
Gold • 3.53 g • ⌀ 21.5 mm
Fr# 2c, Gamberini# 394, N# 192693

1 Ducat - Michele Steno
ND (1400-1413)
Gold • 3.50 g • ⌀ 21 mm
Fr# 2D, N# 192694

1 Ducat - Filippo Maria Visconti
ND (1426-1436)
Gold • 3.28 g
N# 141300

1 Ducat - Andrea Dandolo
ND (1344-1354)
Gold • 3.51 g
N# 192692

Bronze Æ17
ND (1347-1385)
Bronze • 1.02 g • ⌀ 17 mm
N# 192695

Crusader and Christian states in the Eastern Mediterranean › Genoese colonies › Lesbos, Lordship of • Unspecified currency

Ducat - Dorino Gattilusio
ND (1428-1449)
Gold • 3.49 g
N# 201106

Crusader and Christian states in the Eastern Mediterranean › Genoese colonies › Moncastro, City of

Dirham (Asprocastron)
ND (1362-1394)
Silver • 0.4 g
N# 167308

Crusader and Christian states in the Eastern Mediterranean › Genoese colonies › Phocaea, Lordship of

1 Denaro - Dorino Gattilusio
ND (1428-1449)
Billon • 1.57 g
N# 201432