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Denaro - Bertrand
| Issuer | Patriarchate of Aquileia |
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| Year | 1334-1350 |
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| Weight | 1.1 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | A nimbate, frontal seated figure of Saint Hermagoras, patron of Aquileia, depicted without beard, raises his right hand in benediction and holds a processional cross in his left hand. The figure is rendered in a stylized Romanesque manner typical of 14th-century north Italian ecclesiastical coinage. An uncial Latin legend encircles the figure between the inner beaded border and the coin's outer edge, naming the saint. |
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Bertrand de Saint-Geniès held the patriarchate from 1334 to 1350, a tenure defined by persistent conflict with the della Scala lords of Verona and repeated struggles to maintain temporal authority over Friuli. The Aquileian patriarchs functioned as secular princes as much as ecclesiastical figures, and their coinage was an instrument of that dual authority — issued not from Rome's sanction but from the patriarchate's own mint at Udine.
Bernardi catalogues two die varieties for this type, distinguished in references #43 and #44, suggesting active production across multiple phases of Bertrand's rule rather than a single concentrated issue.