ABSTRACT
In default of documentary sources naming the mint -place or places, only approach the problem empirically, namely through a study of the coins themselves. Until Famagusta passed into Genoese hands the fourteenth-century kings of Cyprus had minted coins there as well as in Nicosia. The shares taken by the two mints were very roughly equal. Charlotte's coins, which again she was in a position to strike during only a short period, are of a single type, with a crowned shield as their main design, instead of an image of the queen enthroned. Famagusta was, of course, symbolically substituted for the lost kingdom of Jerusalem in the coronation ceremonies of the Lusignan dynasty. Meanwhile, the Sigouri attribution makes sense of aspects of the coins' style and the designs of the scarce types, without requiring us to suppose that Lusignan coins were minted on Genoese territory.
