Crusader states, Principality of Achaea. Florent of Hainaut (1289-1297). Denier Tournois Very Scarce variety (No reserve price)

Florent of Hainaut (1289-1297)
Principality of Achaea, Frankish Greece,

In a protective Slab, Blank label to write your own description.. The coin is NOT Graded..

Very Scarce variety.. drooping bell shaped flower with two buds following legend (a pun on the prince's name?)

Silver Hammered Coin
Weight: 0.82 g

Crusader and Christian states in the Eastern Mediterranean..

Obverse: Cross within circle
Lettering: ✠ FLORENS P Ach
(Curly tailed R)

Reverse: Castle Tournois
Lettering: : DE CLARENCIA'

Mint
Clarentza, Greece

Metcalf Crusaders variery F2, pl. 39, 956
Malloy CCS p. 361, 13a

Florent of Hainaut was Prince of Achaea in right of his wife, Isabella of Villehardouin. He was the son of John I of Avesnes and Adelaide of Holland. From his father he received the stadholdership of Zeeland. After he left Zeeland, he took up service with Charles II of Naples, who made him constable of the Kingdom of Naples. Florent settled with his wife in Morea. He negotiated the Treaty of Glarentsa with the Byzantine Empire in 1290; however, the situation for the Franks in Greece was hopeless by this time. The fall of the Angevins in Sicily meant that they were preoccupied with recouping territory there and few Western governments would send troops to defend Morea. Florent thus made peace and maintained it until 1293, when the Greeks retook Kalamata. Florent did not despair and did not reopen the war which had been ongoing until his succession: he instead sent an embassy in protest to Andronikos II Palaiologos, and the emperor returned Kalamata. In 1296, the Greeks retook the castle of Saint George in Arcadia. Florent besieged the castle, but died before it could be taken.
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