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1 Grosso - Gian Galeazzo Visconti
| Issuer | Duchy of Milan |
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| Year | 1395-1402 |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | . S . ABROSIV MEDIOLAN . (Translation: Saint Ambrose of Milan) |
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Gian Galeazzo acquired the title Duke of Milan in 1395 by purchasing it from the Habsburgs — a transaction that cost him 100,000 florins and fundamentally altered the political structure of northern Italy. He had already seized power from his uncle Bernabò six years earlier, luring him to a meeting under the pretense of a religious encounter before having him arrested and imprisoned, where Bernabò died. The ducal coinage issued after 1395 thus marks a very specific political rupture: legitimacy bought rather than inherited.