Grosso Aquilino - Albert II & Mastino II

Albert II and Mastino II della Scala ruled jointly as co-lords of Verona from 1351, following the death of their brother Cangrande II's effective political dominance — though the dynastic arrangement was always uneasy. The Grosso Aquilino takes its name from the imperial eagle, a deliberate assertion of Ghibelline loyalty at a moment when the Scaligeri were navigating the collapse of their territorial empire after the disastrous loss of Parma, Lucca, and other conquests in the 1340s.

By 1352 the signoria had contracted sharply from its peak under Cangrande I. This coin was struck in that diminished but still functioning mint, its silver content reflecting the monetary pressures common to northern Italian city-states absorbing mid-century plague losses.