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Denaro - Commune In the name of Henry VII
| Issuer | Comune di Como |
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| Year | 1310-1313 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Reverse lettering | ✠ hEnriCVS • i • r • (Translation: Henry, Emperor of the Romans) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Henry VII's Italian campaign (1310–1313) prompted cities across Lombardy to issue coinage in the emperor's name as a signal of Ghibelline allegiance — or at minimum, political pragmatism. Como, a reliably imperial city on the lake, was among those that complied. Henry died of fever near Siena in August 1313 before ever consolidating imperial authority in Italy, leaving these civic issues as the only tangible administrative output of a coronation expedition that Dante famously celebrated and history largely judged a failure.