1 Grosso - Bernabò, Galeazzo II and John Galeazzo

This grosso belongs to one of the most turbulent junctures in Visconti dynastic history. Bernabò Visconti had co-ruled Milan for decades alongside his brother Galeazzo II, but after Galeazzo's death in 1378, real tensions surfaced between Bernabò and his nephew Gian Galeazzo. In May 1385, Gian Galeazzo lured Bernabò into an ambush outside Milan under the pretense of a pilgrimage meeting, seized him without a battle, and had him imprisoned in Trezzo sull'Adda, where Bernabò died later that year — almost certainly poisoned. This coin, struck in the narrow window before that coup, carries three names that would never again appear together on Milanese coinage.