The economic role of Vetricella in Scarlino in the Medieval trade characterising the coastal valleys of southern Tuscany is suggested by the discovery of coins. The central building of the site, the tower, played an important collecting role between the last quarter of the 10th century and the beginning of the 11th century AD. In fact, Kings’ of Italy “denari”, Berengar I, Hugh and Lothar II, and Marquis’ of Tuscany, Hugh the Great, minted in Pavia and Lucca, were found here.
The recovery of each individual coin was recorded and mapped during the dig. Lorenzo Marasco, Post Doc Research Fellow, scientific coordinator of the archaeological investigations at Vetricella for the nEU-Med project, and Cristina Cicali, numismatist and research grant assignee in the nEU-Med project, investigated the relationships between the coins and the contexts of finding, even when the coins were recovered in layers reworked by ploughing.