1/2 Ducat - John I of Campofregoso

John I of Campofregoso held the dogeship of Genoa twice — a first term cut short by factional violence, and a second beginning in 1445 that ended with his death in 1447, the probable year of this striking. The Campofregoso family dominated Genoese politics across much of the fifteenth century, cycling in and out of power against the rival Adorno clan in a sequence of coups that made continuous monetary policy nearly impossible.

CNI III#3 is among the rarer ducal fractions attributed to his second reign, with surviving examples few enough that die study remains incomplete.