Pavia's communal coinage of this period reflects the city's increasingly precarious autonomy — by the 1310s, the commune was maneuvering between Visconti pressure from Milan and imperial interventions under Henry VII and later Ludwig IV. The 2 Grossi denomination placed Pavia in direct commercial competition with the Milanese grosso system, a deliberate monetary assertion by a city that would lose its independence entirely within a generation.
The CNI IV references 497 and 498 document two distinct die varieties for this type, distinguishable by subtle differences in the doorway rendering.
Pavia's communal coinage of this period reflects the city's increasingly precarious autonomy — by the 1310s, the commune was maneuvering between Visconti pressure from Milan and imperial interventions under Henry VII and later Ludwig IV. The 2 Grossi denomination placed Pavia in direct commercial competition with the Milanese grosso system, a deliberate monetary assertion by a city that would lose its independence entirely within a generation.
The CNI IV references 497 and 498 document two distinct die varieties for this type, distinguishable by subtle differences in the doorway rendering.