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1 Denaro - Pandolfo Malatesta S
| Issuer | Signoria of Brescia under Pandolfo Malatesta |
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| Year | 1404-1421 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicting a Moor's head in profile facing left, rendered in the crude but vigorous style typical of early fifteenth-century Italian hammered coinage. The device is set within a beaded inner border. The surrounding legend reads D BRIXIE 3C in Latin characters, referencing the Dominus of Brescia, with the numeral or mark indicating the denomination. The irregular flan exhibits typical die-shift and flan-clip characteristics common to the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pandolfo III Malatesta seized Brescia in 1404 after the city's brief and chaotic interlude following Visconti dominance, ruling it as signore until Francesco Sforza's gradual absorption of the region pushed the Malatesta out in 1421. His denaro issues are among the thinnest billon pieces struck in Lombardy during this period — the alloy so debased by this point that the silver content was largely nominal, reflecting the chronic monetary degradation that plagued northern Italian city coinages in the early fifteenth century.