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Denier Tournois - Isabella
| Issuer | Achaea, Principality of |
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| Year | 1297-1301 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | DE CLARENCIA |
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Isabella de Villehardouin's brief independent reign over Achaea — before she was effectively forced into marriage with Philip of Savoy in 1301, transferring real power to him — produced a narrow window of autonomous coinage in her own name. The denier tournois type she struck was borrowed wholesale from the royal French model, a deliberate legitimizing gesture by the Frankish principalities of Greece, who had been imitating Tours-style coinage since the mid-thirteenth century.
Metcalf's classification of this type reflects the difficulties in attributing Achaean deniers precisely; die-link analysis remains the primary tool for separating her issues from those of her successors.