The anonymous billon deniers of Lusignan Cyprus are notoriously difficult to reign-assign with precision, and Metcalf's Type 77 sits in a contested stretch of the sequence covering the reigns of Janus and his son John II. Cyprus under Janus was catastrophically sacked by the Mamluk Sultanate in 1426 — the king himself was captured and held for ransom in Cairo — and whatever mint continuity existed before that raid was almost certainly disrupted. That the coinage resumed, and that pieces from the post-ransom years are largely indistinguishable from earlier strikes, speaks to how little the monetary infrastructure changed despite the political trauma.
The anonymous billon deniers of Lusignan Cyprus are notoriously difficult to reign-assign with precision, and Metcalf's Type 77 sits in a contested stretch of the sequence covering the reigns of Janus and his son John II. Cyprus under Janus was catastrophically sacked by the Mamluk Sultanate in 1426 — the king himself was captured and held for ransom in Cairo — and whatever mint continuity existed before that raid was almost certainly disrupted. That the coinage resumed, and that pieces from the post-ransom years are largely indistinguishable from earlier strikes, speaks to how little the monetary infrastructure changed despite the political trauma.