1 Grosso - Eugene IV

Eugene IV — born Gabriele Condulmer — spent much of his pontificate not in Rome but in exile, driven out by a revolt in 1434 and forced to govern from Florence and then Bologna for nearly a decade. His coinage was issued under fractured political circumstances, with the papal mint operating under conditions that shifted as alliances with local Roman factions collapsed and reformed. The Grosso series under his name is consequently uneven in production consistency, and examples vary noticeably in flan quality.