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Grosso Agontano - Republic 2d Period
| Issuer | Republic of Bologna |
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| Year | 1376-1401 |
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| Weight | 2.5 g |
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| Reverse description | A full-length standing figure of Saint Petronius, patron saint of Bologna, facing forward in episcopal vestments with a mitre upon his head. The saint holds a crozier in his left hand and raises his right hand in the act of blessing. The figure is rendered in a flat, stylised Romanesque-Gothic manner characteristic of northern Italian civic coinage of the late 14th century. The legend naming the saint runs around the periphery in uncial Gothic lettering, separated by stops. |
| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Bologna's second republican period followed the expulsion of the Papal legate in 1376 — part of the broader War of the Eight Saints, in which Florence bankrolled a league of Italian communes against Gregory XI. The Bolognese mint resumed civic coinage almost immediately, reasserting communal authority through silver issues that had been suppressed under direct papal administration.
The agontano type itself derived from Ancona's grosso, adopted and adapted across central Italy during the 13th century as a regional commercial denomination before individual communes began asserting their own monetary identities through it.