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Denaro G
| Issuer | Commune of Novara |
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| Year | 1250-1300 |
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| Currency | Lira |
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| Obverse description | Within a central beaded inner circle, a short cross pattée is depicted with a six-pointed star placed at each of its four terminals, creating a symmetrical cruciform design. The arms of the cross extend outward toward the beaded border, with the stars accentuating the tips in the medieval Italian hammered style. The surrounding field between the inner circle and the outer beaded border carries the Latin legend. The overall composition is characteristic of late 13th-century northern Italian communal coinage, with a bold, slightly irregular strike typical of hand-hammered production. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Novara's communal coinage of the late thirteenth century occupied a contested monetary zone — the city sat between the competing monetary spheres of Milan and the western Piedmontese towns, and its billon denari circulated in a region where imperial authority had fragmented badly after Frederick II's death in 1250. The Commune issued under its own name precisely because no credible overlord remained to do it for them.
The MEC XIV attribution places this firmly within the north Italian communal sequence documented by Grierson and Travaini.