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Bolognino Grosso - Giacomo and Giovanni Pepoli
| Issuer | Bologna, Republic of |
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| Year | 1347-1350 |
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| Reference(s) | CNI X#p.7, 1 |
| Obverse description | Central field features the Bolognese cross — a Latin cross with a triangular base resembling an anchor or tau form — set within a beaded inner circle. The cross is flanked by four pellets in the cardinal positions within the inner circle. The outer field displays the segmented legend in Gothic lettering, separated by pellets, reading BONONIA (Bologna), interrupted by a small cross pattee at the top. The coin is struck on an irregular flan typical of hammered medieval coinage, with moderate relief and characteristic die wear. |
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| Mintage | ND (1347-1350) |
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The Pepoli lordship over Bologna lasted barely a decade. Giacomo Pepoli seized control of the city in 1337 by purchasing it — essentially bribing the factions that might have opposed him — and his son Giovanni inherited the signoria, only for the family to sell Bologna to the Visconti of Milan in 1350 for 200,000 florins. This coin was struck during that final, precarious phase of Pepoli rule, making it one of the shortest-lived civic coinages of fourteenth-century northern Italy.
The CNI records for this type are notably sparse, a reflection of the limited output during those three years before the Visconti takeover ended local minting authority entirely.