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Grosso - Antoniotto Adorno, Governor for Charles VI
| Issuer | Republic of Genoa |
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| Year | 1396-1397 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the castle of Genoa — a stylised turreted gateway — set within a quadrilobe frame composed of four rounded lobes, each lobe adorned with small trefoil leaf ornaments in the spandrels. The letter V appears prominently at the base of the quadrilobe, identifying the governor's initial. A beaded inner border separates the central device from the outer legend, which reads in uncial Latin characters: GVBERNATOR IANVENSIVM, referring to the governor of the Genoese. The entire design is executed in the Gothic hammered style characteristic of late 14th-century Ligurian coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Antoniotto Adorno's tenure as governor was itself a product of Genoese desperation — the republic's factional violence between the Guelphs and Ghibellines had grown so ungovernable by the late fourteenth century that the city voluntarily submitted to French sovereignty in 1396, placing itself under Charles VI. Adorno served as the French king's appointed governor, a role that existed precisely because Genoese self-governance had collapsed under the weight of its own civil strife.
The submission to France lasted until 1409, but this grosso type belongs to its earliest phase, minted within the first year of the arrangement.