Raymond della Torre held the patriarchate from 1273 to 1298, a period defined by his fierce entanglement in the factional wars between the della Torre and Visconti families in Lombardy — conflicts that repeatedly pulled him away from ecclesiastical administration and into open military campaigning. The Patriarchate of Aquileia held secular lordship over a substantial territory in the Friuli, making its mint output as much a political instrument as a commercial one.
Bernardi 29 is among the more routinely encountered piccoli of the series, though the thin billon fabric makes intact examples genuinely difficult to find.
Raymond della Torre held the patriarchate from 1273 to 1298, a period defined by his fierce entanglement in the factional wars between the della Torre and Visconti families in Lombardy — conflicts that repeatedly pulled him away from ecclesiastical administration and into open military campaigning. The Patriarchate of Aquileia held secular lordship over a substantial territory in the Friuli, making its mint output as much a political instrument as a commercial one.
Bernardi 29 is among the more routinely encountered piccoli of the series, though the thin billon fabric makes intact examples genuinely difficult to find.