Denier minuto type 3

The date range here brackets a period of acute factional instability in Genoa, during which the city cycled through multiple doges and briefly fell under the lordship of the Visconti of Milan between 1353 and 1356. Coinage production continued across these disruptions, but authority over the mint changed hands repeatedly, which accounts for the typological subdivisions scholars have worked to untangle in CNI III.

Billon of this weight range was the workhorse of small Mediterranean commerce — paid out in markets, used to settle tavern bills, lost in harbor mud. The survival rate is accordingly low for problem-free examples.