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Denaro - In name of Frederick 'Scodellato'
| Issuer | City of Bergamo (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1236-1250 |
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| Weight | 0.85 g |
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| Obverse description | Central depiction of a stylized fortified city gate or castle facade, rendered in the Romanesque manner typical of medieval Italian civic coinage. The structure features two flanking towers with crenellations and a central taller tower or gateway surmounted by a patriarchal cross, all set within a beaded inner border. The architectural motif is a civic emblem symbolizing Bergamo. The legend PGA MVN is distributed within the field around the central device, likely as an abbreviated reference to the municipality of Bergamo. The flan is irregular and scyphate, with the design in concave relief characteristic of the scodellato type. |
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| Mintage | ND (1236-1250) |
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Bergamo's civic coinage of this period is politically loaded: the city struck in the name of Frederick II not out of loyalty but as a pragmatic acknowledgment of imperial authority during a period when the Lombard communes were navigating an increasingly dangerous relationship with the Hohenstaufen emperor. Frederick's prolonged conflict with the Lombard League — culminating in his excommunication by Gregory IX in 1239 — made such nominal attributions a form of diplomatic cover rather than genuine submission. The scodellato fabric, with its characteristic bowl-struck curvature, is a regional convention shared across northern Italian denari of the period.