Denaro - Dominic Gattilusio

Dominic Gattilusio held Lesbos for barely a decade before the Ottomans under Mehmed II closed in. The island fell in 1462, just years after this issue, when Niccolò Gattilusio — Dominic's successor — was strangled on Mehmed's orders following his surrender of Mytilene. The Gattilusio family had held the island since 1355 as a Genoese fief granted by the Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos, making their bronze small change an artifact of a remarkably long-lived Latin presence in the eastern Aegean.

Lunardi G15 is among the scarcer Gattilusio issues, reflecting the compressed timeframe of Dominic's rule.