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Denaro - Ottobono
| Issuer | Patriarchate of Aquileia |
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| Year | 1312-1315 |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ★ A QVILE GEИSI S (Translation: ... of Aquileia) |
| Reverse description | Frontal enthroned figure of Patriarch Ottobono depicted in full vestments, wearing a miter and occupying the central field, dividing the surrounding legend. The patriarch holds a patriarchal cross or staff in his right hand and a book — likely the Gospels — in his left hand. The hieratic, frontal presentation is characteristic of episcopal authority imagery on medieval Italian ecclesiastical coinage, with the figure rendered in a stylized, flat-relief hammered technique. |
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Ottobono de' Razzi held the patriarchate for barely three years before his death in 1315, making his coinage among the shortest-lived issues in Aquileian monetary history. The patriarchs of Aquileia exercised the imperial minting privilege granted by Frederick I in 1077, a right they defended fiercely against the encroachments of both Venice and the County of Gorizia throughout the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
Bernardi #35 is the standard reference for attribution; Biaggi's numbering diverges slightly in die classification.