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Fiorino Vecchio of 12 denari
| Issuer | Republic of Florence |
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| Year | 1230-1260 |
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| Reference(s) | MIR#38 XII#12 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The fiorino vecchio predates Florence's more famous gold florin by decades, circulating as the city's primary silver denomination during a period of explosive commercial expansion across Tuscany and the wider Mediterranean trade networks. Its minting coincided almost exactly with Florence's brutal conflict with Siena — the Guelph-Ghibelline rivalry that would culminate in the Florentine disaster at Montaperti in 1260, after which the city's monetary administration was temporarily disrupted.
The MIR 38 attribution covers a broad emission span, and die studies have identified meaningful variation across the type.