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Grosso of 4 denaros - In name of Frederick
| Issuer | City of Bergamo (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1236-1250 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | IMPRT FREDERI CVS (Translation: Emperor Frederick) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bergamo's grosso coinage emerges from one of the more awkward political arrangements of 13th-century Lombardy — the city nominally issuing in the name of Frederick II while simultaneously maneuvering between imperial loyalty and the Lombard League's stubborn resistance. Frederick's prolonged conflicts with Pope Gregory IX and the League cities meant that "imperial" coinage from subject towns carried as much diplomatic performance as economic function. Bergamo itself shifted allegiances more than once during this period.
The MEC XII range of seven catalog numbers reflects genuine die variation across the issue's roughly fifteen-year span.