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Denaro - Volrico de Portis

Issuer Bishop of Trieste
Year 1234-1254
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Weight 1.30 g
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Obverse lettering VOLVRICVS EPS
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Edge Plain
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Volrico de Portis held the episcopal seat of Trieste during a period when the city's bishops wielded genuine temporal authority, minting coinage as a direct exercise of that power rather than as a ceremonial privilege. The denaro issues under his name fall within a broader northern Adriatic tradition of ecclesiastical coinages that were produced in competition — sometimes open conflict — with secular municipal and commercial interests. Trieste's position between Venetian commercial pressure and the Holy Roman Empire made its bishop's mint a political statement as much as an economic one.

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