Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Mezzano
| Issuer | Pavia |
|---|---|
| Year | 1299-1339 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Billon |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | AVCVSTVS CE (Translation: Exalted emperor) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | ND (1299-1339) |
| Additional information |
Pavia's monetary authority in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries operated under the fractured political reality of Lombard communal coinage — multiple cities striking competing small billon issues of nearly identical weight and fabric, often accepted interchangeably at market. The mezzano occupied the middle denomination in Pavia's hierarchy, below the denaro imperiale and above the smaller minuto, and its forty-year production window reflects the unusual stability of Pavese civic administration during a period when neighboring communes were being absorbed by signorie.