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Coin replica - Banca Commerciale Italiana 1 Grosso - Henry VII
| Issuer | Banca Commerciale Italiana |
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| Year | 1974 |
| Type | Replica coin |
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| Reverse description | Enthroned frontal figure of Saint Ambrose, patron and Archbishop of Milan, depicted in full pontifical vestments including mitre, cope decorated with crosses, and pectoral cross. He is seated between two tall column-like towers or ciboria, holding a crozier in his right hand and raising his left in a gesture of benediction. A beaded halo encircles his head. The circumferential legend in uncial Latin reads '• S • AMBROSI' • MEDIOLANVM', identifying the saint and the city of Milan, enclosed within a beaded border. |
| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Banca Commerciale Italiana issued a series of replica coins in the 1970s reproducing medieval Italian civic and signorial types, this piece reproducing the grosso struck under Henry VII during his Italian campaign of 1310–13. Henry descended into Italy as Holy Roman Emperor-elect seeking to reassert imperial authority over the peninsula's fractious communes — a project that ended with his death near Siena in August 1313 before his campaign could be resolved. Dante, who pinned considerable political hope on Henry's intervention, mourned him in the final cantos of the Commedia.