Denaro - Dorino I Gattilusio D

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.