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Denaro - Raymond della Torre Scepters
| Issuer | Patriarchate of Aquileia |
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| Year | 1281-1287 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ AQVILЄ GGИSIS (Translation: ...of Aquileia) |
| Reverse description | Enthroned frontal figure of the Patriarch in episcopal vestments, wearing a miter, the legend divided on either side of his effigy. He holds a patriarchal cross in his raised right hand and a book (Gospel) in his left hand. The figure is depicted in a hieratic, stylized manner typical of 13th-century Italian ecclesiastical hammered coinage, seated on a throne visible at the sides. The legend naming Raymond (Raimondo della Torre) runs around the periphery, divided by the patriarchal figure. |
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Raymond della Torre held the patriarchate from 1273 to 1299, but his coinage falls within a narrower window tied to his periods of effective secular control over Friuli — contested repeatedly by the Counts of Gorizia and the Habsburgs. The scepter type specifically is associated with his assertion of temporal lordship during the early-to-mid 1280s, when the patriarchate was still functioning as a meaningful territorial power before its gradual absorption into competing dynastic ambitions accelerated under his successors.
Bernardi 30 is the standard attribution for della Torre's denari; Biaggi 154 cross-references the same dies.