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Grosso - Thomas of Campofregoso, 1st Reign
| Issuer | Republic of Genoa |
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| Year | 1415-1421 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a large cross pattée with slightly splayed arms, set within a quadrilobe frame of four lobed arches decorated with trefoil ornaments at the cusps, closely mirroring the obverse composition. A small mint letter or mark appears in one of the lobes. The surrounding circular legend, separated by stops, invokes the Imperial authority of Conrad II, King of the Romans, in abbreviated Latin uncial script. A beaded inner circle borders the quadrilobe from the outer legend. |
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Thomas of Campofregoso seized the dogeship in 1415 after a period of factional violence that had seen Genoa pass through French royal control and back again within a generation. His first reign lasted until 1421, when the city was sold — formally, if humiliatingly — to Filippo Maria Visconti of Milan, ending his tenure not through coup or death but through a cash transaction that traded a republic's independence for relief from debt and military pressure.
The MEC XII references split between #311 and #312, indicating a die variety distinction documented within this reign's output.