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1/3 Grosso - Camille of Aragon and Giovanni Sforza
| Issuer | City of Pesaro (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1483-1489 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a four-petalled rosette or quatrefoil ornament enclosed within a plain inner circle and a beaded inner border. The circular legend in Gothic and uncial Latin letterforms reads CAMILLA Z IO S PIS D, identifying the joint rulers Camilla of Aragon and Giovanni Sforza as Lords of Pesaro, with floral stops separating the legend elements. The flan is irregular and slightly off-round, characteristic of hand-hammered coinage of the late fifteenth century. The relief is relatively low, with the central device lightly struck, as typical of small-denomination Italian Renaissance issues. |
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| Reverse description | Standing full-length figure of Saint Terence, patron saint of Pesaro, depicted facing forward in episcopal or episcopal-style vestments, wearing a mitre and holding a crozier in one hand. The figure is rendered in a linear, somewhat stylised manner consistent with late medieval Italian hammered coinage. A circular legend in Gothic and uncial Latin letterforms surrounds the figure, reading S TERENTIVS, with star-shaped stops. The coin exhibits areas of green patination on the reverse, characteristic of long-buried Italian silver issues of the fifteenth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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