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Denier Tournois - Helena Angelina Comnena
| Issuer | Barony of Carytaena |
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| Year | 1291-1300 |
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| Weight | 0.69 g |
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| Obverse lettering | +.HELENA° DI. GR-A° |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Helena Angelina Comnena issued this denier as regent of Carytaena following the death of her husband Geoffroy de Bruyères around 1275, though the barony's coinage continued to be struck in his name and then hers well into the 1290s. Carytaena was among the most strategically important lordships in the Principality of Achaea, commanding the mountain passes of the central Peloponnese — a position that made its continued independent coinage politically meaningful even as Frankish power in Greece contracted sharply under Angevin pressure and Byzantine reconquest.