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1 Bolognino Romano - Gregory XI Anonymous
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1370-1378 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central design composed of the four letters V, R, B, I arranged in a cruciform pattern around a central globule, evoking a cross and alluding to the word VRBI (City). Each letter is separated by a pellet, and the arrangement is set within a beaded inner circle. The peripheral Latin legend encircles the design in the outer margin, reading DE ROMA VRBI, signifying the papal monetary authority of the City of Rome. The flan is irregular and slightly clipped, characteristic of hammered medieval coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (1370-1378) |
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Gregory XI is best remembered for ending the Avignon papacy, returning the papal seat to Rome in January 1377 after nearly seventy years of French-dominated exile — a move so politically fraught it contributed directly to the Western Schism that erupted the year he died. These bolognini were struck anonymously, without the pope's name, a minting convention of the period that makes die-specific attribution to individual years within the pontificate nearly impossible without reference to the Muntoni sequence.