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Denaro - Dorino I Gattilusio D
| Issuer | Lordship of Lesbos (Mytilene) (Genoese colonies) |
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| Year | 1428-1449 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | DOmInVZ METELInI B B B B (Translation: Lord of Mytilene) |
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| Mintage | ND (1428-1449) |
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Dorino I ruled Lesbos as a Genoese lord during a period of acute Ottoman pressure on Aegean lordships — Constantinople would fall just four years after his death in 1449. The Gattilusio family had held Lesbos since 1355, when Francesco Gattilusio received the island as a dowry from the Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos. Their coinage occupied an awkward monetary space, nominally Genoese in authority but circulating among a predominantly Greek-speaking population trading with both Venetian and Ottoman merchants.
Lunardi G12 is among the scarcer Gattilusio types by surviving population.