1 Grosso `Berlinga` - Filippo Maria Visconti

The "Berlinga" grosso takes its popular name from the Milanese dialect term for a public pillory or scaffold — an epithet that stuck, though numismatists have never fully agreed on whether the slang referred to something in the design's early reception or simply the coin's rough treatment in circulation. Filippo Maria, the last male Visconti duke, issued this denomination during the final decade of his rule, a period marked by his increasingly reclusive behavior and near-pathological fear of assassination, which made consistent mint oversight erratic at best.

MIR 155 distinguishes several die varieties within this short emission window.