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Grosso 'Aquilino' - Ulrich of Walsee
| Issuer | Lordship of Padova |
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| Year | 1320-1321 |
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| Obverse description | Within an inner reeded circle, an eagle displayed facing left with wings spread, head turned to the right — the so-called 'aquilino' type emblematic of Paduan lordship coinage. The bird is rendered in the bold, stylized manner typical of northern Italian hammered silver of the early fourteenth century. A circular legend in Latin uncial characters runs between the inner reeded circle and the outer border. |
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| Mintage | ND (1320-1321) |
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Ulrich of Walsee held Padua for barely fourteen months as an imperial vicar appointed by the Habsburgs, caught between Cangrande della Scala's expanding territorial ambitions and the city's own factional instabilities. His coinage is among the rarest products of Paduan lordship precisely because of that brevity — fewer than two years of production under a ruler whose grip on the city was never secure.
The "Aquilino" type takes its name from its iconographic debt to the Veronese aquilino coinage, itself a widely imitated north Italian silver denomination of the period.