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1 Grosso - Henry VII of Luxembourg
| Issuer | Milan, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1310-1313 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Mintage | ND (1310-1313) |
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Henry VII entered Milan in January 1311 for his imperial coronation at Sant'Ambrogio — a ceremony deliberately staged there rather than in Rome to assert his authority over the Lombard communes. His three-year campaign to restore imperial power in northern Italy collapsed with his death from fever near Siena in August 1313, leaving these coins among the few material traces of an interlude that briefly revived Ghibelline hopes across the peninsula. Dante, who placed Henry among the souls destined for paradise, had expected him to end the factional violence that had driven the poet into exile.