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1/2 Denaro / Medaglia Class C
| Issuer | Republic of Genoa |
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| Year | 1170-1190 |
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| Currency | Genovino (1139-1528) |
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| Reverse lettering | CVNRAD7 REX |
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| Mintage | ND (1170-1190) |
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Genoa's earliest coinage emerged directly from the commune's need to finance an aggressive expansion of Mediterranean trade networks, particularly following the city's pivotal role in the First and Second Crusades, which secured Genoese merchants preferential trading rights in Levantine ports. The half-denaro denomination served small daily transactions in a port economy where fractional change mattered.
The "Medaglia Class C" classification reflects the typological sorting work of the MEC XII corpus — the class distinctions rest on subtle die and fabric variations that took decades of scholarship to untangle from the broader denaro series.