Denaro - Dorino I Gattilusio Eagle, DM

Dorino I ruled Lesbos as a Genoese lord from 1428 until his death in 1449, navigating the increasingly dangerous position of a Latin Christian lordship caught between the Ottoman advance and a weakening Byzantine sphere. His coinage was struck under the authority of the Gattilusio family, who had held Lesbos since Francesco Gattilusio received the island as a dowry from John V Palaiologos in 1355 — payment for military assistance rendered at Constantinople. By Dorino's reign, the family operated with near-total autonomy, issuing their own bronze small change for local trade.

The Lunardi G13 classification places this among the rarer Gattilusio bronzes, with Metcalf's corpus confirming limited die survival for the type.