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Grosso 'Aquilino' - Henry II of Gorz
| Issuer | Treviso, City of |
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| Year | 1319-1323 |
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| Currency | Lira |
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| Obverse description | A bold long cross pattée extends to the coin's edge, dividing the field into four quadrants and bisecting an inner reeded circle. The legend in Latin characters is distributed across the four quadrant segments between the arms of the cross and the inner circle. A small rosette or mullet ornament appears at the center of the cross. The entire composition is characteristic of the Italian medieval grosso tradition, rendered by the hammered technique on an irregularly shaped flan. |
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| Reverse lettering | ✠ COMES ⁑ GORIC ＊ ⁑ (Translation: Count of Gorizia) |
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Henry II of Görz held lordship over Treviso from 1319 until the city passed to the Scaligeri of Verona in 1328, but the "Aquilino" type — named for the eagle of the Görz arms — was struck only within the narrower window of 1319–1323, making it one of the shorter-lived civic issues of the Trevisan mint. The grosso draws directly on the Venetian grosso matapan tradition that had dominated northeastern Italian silver coinage for over a century, adapted here to affirm a rival dynastic claim rather than a communal one.