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Ducat - Peter of Campofregoso
| Issuer | Republic of Genoa |
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| Year | 1450-1458 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting a castle gateway (the Genoese portcullis gate) set within a polylobe frame, each interior point of the lobe decorated with a small crosslet. The architectural motif is rendered in the late medieval style characteristic of Genoese hammered gold coinage. The central device is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the Latin legend occupying the surrounding field. The inscription identifies the doge by his initials and title, and records his ordinal number as twenty-sixth Doge of Genoa. |
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| Mintage | ND (1450-1458) - Initial A at end of reverse legend - ND (1450-1458) - Initial B reverse - ND (1450-1458) - Initial D reverse - ND (1450-1458) - Initial O reverse - |
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Peter of Campofregoso seized the dogeship of Genoa in 1450 through factional violence and held it through a combination of political maneuvering and periodic exile — he was deposed, restored, and deposed again before finally selling the city to France in 1458. That transaction, in which he effectively traded Genoese sovereignty to Louis XI's father Charles VII for personal gain, ended his rule and remains one of the more cynical acts of late medieval Italian statecraft.
Gold ducats of this dogeship are scarce by any measure, the eight-year window compressed further by the instability of his tenure.