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1 Denaro - Albert II and Mastino II
| Issuer | Verona, City of |
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| Year | 1349-1352 |
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| Reference(s) | CNI VI#269/3, Biaggi#2972 |
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| Reverse description | A long cross pattée of similar form to the obverse dominates the reverse field, its arms again reaching to an inner circle and dividing the surrounding legend into four segments. The legend, inscribed in uncial Latin, records the joint civic attribution to Verona and Vicenza. Small decorative elements are visible in the angles of the cross. The strike is characteristically weak in places, with an uneven flan edge reflecting hand-hammered production. The design closely mirrors the obverse, a convention common to Scaligeri-era billon denari. |
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| Reverse lettering | CI VE CI VI (Translation: City of Verona City of Vicenza) |
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Albert II and Mastino II della Scala ruled Verona jointly following the death of their father Cangrande II — a deliberate dynastic arrangement meant to consolidate Scaligeri control over the March of Verona at a moment when the family's territorial ambitions had already provoked a coalition war with Venice, Florence, and the Visconti. By 1349, that coalition had stripped the Scaligers of nearly everything outside Verona itself. This tiny billon piece belongs to the diminished, defensive phase of their rule, struck when the signoria was contracting rather than expanding.