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Grosso of 10 imperials - In the name of Conrad II
| Issuer | Piacenza, City of |
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| Year | 1140-1313 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | * REGIS SECVNDI RA CON DI (Translation: King Conrad II) |
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| Mint | Piacenza Mint |
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Piacenza's grosso issues span nearly two centuries of communal government, a period during which the city oscillated between Guelph and Ghibelline allegiances with enough frequency to make the invocation of Conrad II's name a calculated political gesture rather than genuine imperial loyalty. By the mid-thirteenth century, striking coins in the name of a German emperor dead for over a hundred years was a legal fiction — a way to assert minting rights without provoking either faction decisively.
The 10-imperial denomination places this within Lombardy's complex accounting system, where the imperial was a money of account rather than a struck coin, its value relative to local denari shifting across the period's currency reforms.