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COINS AND SEALS IN BYZANTINE AND GENOESE CHIOS, FIFTH - SIXTEENTH CENTURIES, pp.165-182.
EGE DÜNYASI LİMAN KENTLERİ SİKKE, MÜHÜR VE AĞIRLIKLARI PORT CITIES OF THE AEGEAN WORLD COINS, SEALS AND WEIGHTS Editörler / Edited by Ceren Ünal -Akın Ersoy Cengiz Gürbıyık -Başak K. Kasalı, 2018
Orta Çağ’dan modern zamanların başlarına kadar Ege’nin en stratejik adalarından birisi hiç kuşkusuz ki Khios’tur. Güçlü savunma sistemleriyle donanmış liman şehri adanın doğu kıyısında yer alırken, günümüz Türkiye’sinde yer alan Batı Küçük Asya’nın da karşındadır. Bu iki karşılıklı sahil ticari ve başka nedenlerden ötürü sürekli devam eden ilişkisini hiçbir zaman aksatmamıştır. Sakız büyük miktarlarda sikkenin, başka değişle farklı dönemlere ve yöneticilere ait sikkelerin, dolaşımda olduğu bir yer olmasıyla çok ilginç durum sunar bize. Ada bir Bizans toprağı olduğundan her türden Bizans sikkesinin burada dolaşımda olması beklenebilir; ve gerçekten de durum tam da budur. Ayrıca çok sayıda ada ve daha da geniş Orta Çağ yönetim alanı ile ilişkili Bizanslı görevlilere ait kurşun mühürler vardır. 1304’te Cenevizli amiral, girişimci ve Bizans donanmasının Grand Duc’ü Benedetto Zaccaria Khios’un ilk lordu olur. Bu yıl aynı zamanda adanın parasal geçmişi için bir dönüm noktası olur, çünkü Zaccaria ve onu izleyenlere ticari işletmelerini desteklemek amacıyla sikke basma hakkı verilir. Böylece, adanın ilk Ceneviz Dönemi Khios topraklarında ilk sikke basımın ortaya çıkması ve gelişmesiyle vurgulanmaktadır. Daha sonra bu gerçek Eski ve Yeni Khios Maona’sı zamanında da devam etti. Guistiniani Lordları ile bağlantılı ikincisi, her madeni para açısından zengin, en uzun ve en gönençli egemenlikti. Bu makale bir Ege limanının kayda değer ekonomik ve yönetimsel rolü ile zamanın uluslararası deniz ticaretindeki etkisini vurgulamak amacıyla nümismatik ve sigilografik delileri kullanmaktadır. One of the most strategic islands of the Aegean throughout the middle ages and until the early modern period was certainly Chios. The port city equipped with strong defences is situated on the eastern coast, fronting western Asia Minor in modern Turkey. The two shores never ceased to be in constant contact for commercial and other reasons. Chios presents a very interesting case of a place, where a large number of different coins was circulated, namely coins belonging to different periods as well as to different lords. The island was a Byzantine soil therefore one would expect that Byzantine coins of all denominations would have circulated there; and this was indeed the case. There is also a large number of lead seals of Byzantine officials associated with the island, and with its larger medieval administrative region. In 1304 the Genoese admiral, entrepreneur and Grand Duc of the Byzantine navy, Benedetto Zaccaria, became the first Lord of Chios. That year was a landmark for the monetary history of the island, for Zaccaria and his successors were granted the right to strike coins to boost their mercantile enterprises. Thus, the first Genoese period of the island marks the creation and establishment of the first mint on chiot soil. This reality is later continued under the Old and New Maona of Chios. The latter, associated with the Giustiniani lords, was the longest and most prosperous overlordship, rich in every coin denomination. This paper uses the numismatic and sigillographic evidence to highlight the significant economic and administrative role of an Aegean port and its impact on the international maritime commerce of the era.
THE COINAGE OF GORDIAN III FROM THE MINTS OF ANTIOCH AND CAESAREA
The Coinage of Gordian III from the mints of Antioch and Caesarea, 2023
This book presents a detailed die-study of the issues of the mints of Antioch in Syria and Caesarea in Cappadocia from the reign of Gordian III (AD 238-44). The coinage of Antioch consisted of two series of radiates with Roman legends and four series of tetradrachms and 3,818 coins of Antioch and 1,312 silver and bronze coins of Caesarea are included in the die-study. All the dies are illustrated in 100 plates. The study shows how to distinguish the radiates of Antioch from those of Rome and examines the relationship between radiates and tetradrachms of Antioch. The former coins have traditionally been classed as `Roman imperial' and the latter as `Roman provincial'. The dies for the coinage of Caesarea were also produced by Antiochene engravers, which had not been noticed before. Further chapters examine chronological problems, the metal content of the silver coins of Gordian's reign (over a hundred analyses are published here for the first time), the evidence for their circulation in hoards and site finds and the historical events of Gordian's reign. These findings are summarized in the conclusion, which sets the coinages of Antioch and Caesarea in their historical context. Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication 60, 2023, distributed by Spink and Son, £80 The full volume will be available for free download from the RNS website in 2025. Please contact the author if you would like to see it in advance.
Cercetari Numismatice, 2019
Over time, we collected all kinds of images and data of coins that aroused our interest at one point. They were part of different private collections of which nothing is known today. The coins come from the region of Dobruja, offering through their presence new features of the movement of people and money during the Roman period. Thus, we describe some coins from Tyras, from Istros and Odessos, from Nicaea and Prusias ad Hypium, from the province of Bithynia, but also isolated issues from Topirus, Amisus Pontus and Caesarea in Cappadocia. Some pieces wear countermarks with legends such as TONZOV, PR, or the monogram attributed to the city of Antioch in Pisidia; others are punched with an imperial head attributed to Vespasian by an unknown mint.
Numismatic is one of the most influential contributors for the history. The mints and dates, together with the scripts and iconography on coins and seals are bearing concrete information, illuminating the dark pages of the historical records. Some of those coins & seals are extremely rare or unique for sheding much more light to history. This paper covers comperatively those sort of items, such as a rare Ak Koyunid Uzun Hasan's AR tanka, minted in Ani, together with historical reminders on Ak Koyunid's dominancy in Anatolia and 8 rare seals having theological context, two of which are historically important; seal # 1, Neo-Babylonian pyramidal seal (c. 600 BC) found in Harran and seal # 2, bulla, from a bull of Pope Eugene IV (1431-1447), (Provenance is Istanbul) and is trying to reflect some hints of the Anatolian cultural richness, as far as the social, cultural and theological findings are concerned, based on well selected above mentioned items; from the Iskender TARGAC’s Collection (Collectus Nummus) registered in the İstanbul Archaeological Museums and found in Anatolia.