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Denaro - Nicholas Gattilusio
| Uitgever | Lordship of Lesbos (Mytilene) (Genoese colonies) |
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| Jaar | 1459-1462 |
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| Gewicht | 1.0 g |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Hammered bronze field bearing a multi-line Latin legend in uncial script arranged in four lines across the coin's surface, divided by a central cross. The inscription reads DOmInVS mETEL, signifying 'Lord of Mytilene,' with repeating B characters filling the lower register. The die work is characteristic of late medieval Genoese colonial coinage, with irregular flan edges and moderate relief. A beaded or linear inner border partially frames the legend field. The overall execution is crude yet consistent with provincial hammered coinage of the mid-fifteenth century Aegean. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | DOmInVS mETEL B B B B (Translation: Lord of Mytilene) |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Nicholas Gattilusio's rule lasted barely three years before the Ottomans removed him — not by conquest, but by arrest. In 1462, Mehmed II had him strangled, ending the Genoese Gattilusi dynasty's century-long hold on Lesbos without a siege. This denaro was struck within that narrow, politically precarious window when Nicholas governed an island the Ottomans already effectively controlled, having taken Constantinople nine years earlier.
The Gattilusi had survived as Ottoman tributaries since 1354, buying continued lordship through annual payments and strategic marriages. By 1462, that arrangement had exhausted its usefulness to Mehmed.