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Grosso - Philip Maria Visconti Shield
| Issuer | Republic of Genoa |
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| Year | 1421-1426 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Mint | Genoa |
| Mintage | ND (1421-1426) - A at end of reverse legend - ND (1421-1426) - L at end of reverse legend - |
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This grosso was struck under Genoese submission to Milanese authority — Philip Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, held dominion over Genoa from 1421 to 1435 following the city's voluntary surrender, a pragmatic capitulation driven by the republic's exhaustion from factional warfare between the Fregoso and Adorno families. The shield on the reverse is his, not Genoa's, a quiet but unambiguous declaration of who actually governed the mint.
MEC XII#317 places this squarely within the transitional Genoese series before the city reasserted independence under Tommaso Fregoso in 1435.