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Groschen - Roman Senate Charles I of Anjou, shield
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1268-1278 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The enthroned figure of Roma is depicted facing, seated frontally upon a high-backed throne in the hieratic Byzantine-influenced style common to Roman senatorial grossi of the period. She holds a globus cruciger in her right hand and a palm frond in her left, both attributes of imperial and civic authority. The figure is crowned and rendered with stylized drapery, framed within a beaded inner circle. The circular legend surrounds the central device between the inner beaded border and the outer rim, proclaiming Rome's supremacy. |
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Charles I of Anjou held the position of Senator of Rome from 1268, a title granted by the Roman commune rather than the papacy — a distinction that mattered enormously at the time. His appointment came immediately after his defeat of Conradin at Tagliacozzo, which extinguished the Hohenstaufen line and left him the dominant political force in central Italy. Coinage struck under his Roman senatorial authority occupied an awkward constitutional space, issued in the name of the Senate yet deeply entangled with Angevin ambitions the papacy viewed with growing suspicion.