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Grosso 'Guelfo del fiore'
| Issuer | Florence, Republic of |
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| Year | 1314-1315 |
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| Value | 1 Grosso (0.1) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | St. John the Baptist, patron saint of Florence, depicted facing and enthroned in a frontal hieratic pose consistent with medieval Italo-Byzantine artistic conventions. He holds a cross-tipped staff in his left hand while his right hand is raised with the index finger pointing upward in a gesture of blessing or proclamation. The circular Latin legend surrounds the figure, terminating with a lily and preceded by the mintmaster's mark, both serving as control devices. A beaded border frames the design. |
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The "Guelfo del fiore" grosso takes its name from the Guelf faction that dominated Florentine politics in the early fourteenth century — a period when the city's banking houses were underwriting half the crowned heads of Europe while fighting bitterly over internal factional control. Florence had expelled the Ghibellines decisively by 1302, and this coinage reflects the political confidence of the victorious party. The issue was short-lived, struck across a single fiscal biennium before the type was superseded.
MIR 46 is among the scarcer grosso varieties of the Republican period.