Ascoli's coinage during this period was issued under the brief lordship of the Carrara family, whose main power base was Padua — by 1414, a dynasty already broken. Francesco II Novello da Carrara had been strangled in a Venetian prison in 1406, ending Paduan Carrara rule entirely. The Ascoli branch clung to a minor signoria for a few years more, striking coins in a city that had passed between papal, Visconti, and local hands repeatedly across the preceding century.
The CNI reference places this among a thin run of attributions, reflecting how little documentation survives for Ascoli's mint output in these transitional years.
Ascoli's coinage during this period was issued under the brief lordship of the Carrara family, whose main power base was Padua — by 1414, a dynasty already broken. Francesco II Novello da Carrara had been strangled in a Venetian prison in 1406, ending Paduan Carrara rule entirely. The Ascoli branch clung to a minor signoria for a few years more, striking coins in a city that had passed between papal, Visconti, and local hands repeatedly across the preceding century.
The CNI reference places this among a thin run of attributions, reflecting how little documentation survives for Ascoli's mint output in these transitional years.