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1 grosso matapan - marquis Henri et Conrad
| Issuer | Ponzone, Marquisate of |
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| Year | 1300-1399 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the haloed Redeemer enthroned in majesty, depicted seated frontally on a high-backed chair in the Byzantine Pantocrator tradition. The figure is flanked by the Greek Christogram IC XC positioned at the upper left and upper right of the field respectively. The composition closely follows the reverse type of the Venetian grosso matapan, adapted for the Ponzone marquisate, with a simplified granular border encircling the central motif. |
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The grosso matapan was Venice's workhorse trade coin from the early 13th century onward, and its design was so commercially trusted across the Adriatic and Levantine markets that minor lords throughout northern Italy produced direct imitations — not parodies, but deliberate replications intended to circulate alongside Venetian issues. The Ponzone marquisate, a small feudal holding in the Monferrato region, struck this piece under Henri and Conrad as co-rulers, a joint authority arrangement that was itself a symptom of the fragmented inheritance politics defining Lombard signorie throughout the Trecento.
MIR#3 assigns this type a rarity of III, placing genuine circulated examples well outside routine auction appearance.