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Grosso Tornese - Guelfo della Gheradesca and Lotto della Gheradesca
| Issuer | Villa di Chiesa, City of |
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| Year | 1285-1302 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | +: GVELF : ET LOTT` : COMITES · D` DONORATICO : + ETTCIE : PTIS • REGNI • KALL · DNI |
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| Mintage | ND (1285-1302) |
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Villa di Chiesa — modern Iglesias in Sardinia — operated as a semi-autonomous mining commune under Pisan overlordship, and its silver-rich hinterland gave it both the means and the justification to strike its own coinage. The Gherardeschi were a Pisan comital family whose grip on the Sulcis mines financed this issue directly. Guelfo and Lotto held joint lordship under terms negotiated with Pisa in 1275, a division that made co-signed coinage a political necessity rather than a curiosity.
CNI II#1 places this as the opening type of the Villa di Chiesa series — billon of notably variable fineness across the emission.