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1 Denaro
| Issuer | Ancona, City of |
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| Year | 1250-1348 |
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| Currency | Grosso Agontano |
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| Reverse description | Central device consists of a plain short cross with equal arms, fully contained within a raised inner circle. The area between the inner circle and the outer beaded border is decorated with alternating stars and crescents in a continuous ring, a characteristic ornamental motif of Anconitan medieval coinage. A circular Latin legend surrounds the inner circle, reading ✠ · DE ANCONA ·, identifying the issuing city. The overall style is typical of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian communal hammered billon denari. |
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| Reverse lettering | ✠ · DE ANCONA · |
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Ancona's medieval coinage occupied an awkward political space: the city formally acknowledged papal suzerainty while operating as a de facto autonomous commune, and its denaro issues reflect that tension — struck in the city's own name rather than under any bishop or overlord. The billon content shifted considerably across this nearly century-long emission, with later strikes notably debased as the commune faced mounting fiscal pressure from both Visconti expansionism and internal factional conflict.