Crusaders, Epirus (Despotate). Philippe de Taranto BI Denier Tournois. Lepanto (modern Nafpaktos) mint, before 1306(?). ✠ ⚜ Ph'S • P • TAR DЄSP :, cross pattée / ✠ ▪ NЄPANTI CIVIS ᐩ, château tournois. CCS 111a; Cf. Metcalf, Crusades 1995, 1082. 0.87g, 18mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
From a private European collection.
The lack of an Achaean title in the obverse legend of this issue suggests it was struck before 1306 when Philip was bestowed the principality of Achaea.