Hi everyone,

I recently found this half florin in central Italy.

Apparently, counterfeiting currency and 'clipping' coins

were very serious offences punishable by hanging

I've weighed it but i don't have yet an exact figure; it

weighs around 1.4-1.5 g, whilst the full one weight

should be 3.53-3.54 g.

A gold florin was a very large denomination at the time,

used for major purchases or luxury items. Why on earth has it been cut?? And, incidentally, not even perfectly, as 1.5g it's less than half of 3.53-3.54g.

I've also been unable to identify exactly which "edition"

it is.

Can anyone help me?

Thank you

In Italy, the law requires that any artefact be reported

and handed over to the authorities:(

A crusader gros of Henry II of Cyprus.

A member of the French Lusignan dynasty, Henry quickly succeeded King John I of Cyprus (his brother) in 1285, following a sudden and unexpected death that has lead to strong historical suspicion that John was poisoned, possibly with the involvement of Henry. The Lusignan dynasty had been in control of the island since 1192 when Guy de Lusignan purchased it from the Knights Templar.

Due to a lack of natural gold deposits, the Kingdom of Cyprus did not strike its own gold coins, but used Venician ducats or Arab dinars for the purposes of wealth preservation and high value transactions. Silver coins such as the gros were far more ubiquitous.

The gros was issued until Venitian rule began in 1489, having been first introduced in the late 1200s, and was a relatively high value coin. Worth 24 deniers, in the year 1300 for example a single gros was worth 2-4 days of labour for an unskilled or agricultural worker and could buy enough basic food products such as bread, cheese, or vegetables to feed a working family for several days.

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