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1 Piccolo - Gregory of Montelongo Lily
| Issuer | Patriarchate of Aquileia |
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| Year | 1251-1269 |
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| Reference(s) | Biaggi#152, Bernardi#23 |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a bold pattée cross set within a beaded inner circle, the arms of the cross expanding toward the circumference of the inner ring in a characteristic 13th-century Aquileian style. Between the beaded circle and the irregular flan edge, the Latin legend in uncial characters names the issuing patriarch. The design follows the standard typology of Aquileian piccoli, with the cross as the dominant ecclesiastical symbol flanked by elements of the surrounding inscription. |
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Gregory of Montelongo arrived in Aquileia in 1251 not as a churchman first but as a former papal legate who had spent years coordinating military resistance against Frederick II in northern Italy. His tenure as Patriarch was shaped by that combative background, and his mint at Aquileia operated within a regional economy heavily disrupted by decades of Hohenstaufen conflict. The piccolo denomination was the workhorse of small local exchange throughout the Friulian market towns under patriarchal authority.
Bernardi's attribution remains the standard reference for the sequence, with Biaggi concurring on the type assignment to Gregory's reign rather than an earlier or later Patriarch of similar name.