Black Sea Coinages in the Long Thirteenth Century

Photograph by Elena Baldi. Courtesy of the Numismatic Collection, Princeton University Library.

Coins from Princeton University’s Numismatic Collection:

Sultanate of Rum: 18988; 18989; 18990; 18992

Golden Horde: 18980; 18984; 18986; 18987

Ilkhanids: 18974; 18978; 18981; 18983 

Republic of Venice: 2362; 2460

Republic of Genoa: 2641; 2642

Bulgaria: 12288; 12241; 13375

Byzantine Empire before 1204: 9381; 9550

Latin Empire: 18720; 12150

Empire of Nicaea: 18225; 18226; 18227; 6338

Byzantine Empire after 1261: 19083; 19084; 19085

Trebizond: 20372; 20373

Georgia: 20374

Numbers refer to the Coin Room’s catalogue numbers. Photographs of individual coins may be downloaded and used for research purposes.

The early modern map of the “Pontus Euxinus” is from the 1606 Antwerp/London edition of Abraham Ortelius.

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