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| Issuer | Bishopric of Trieste |
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| Year | 1200 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin (retrograde) |
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| Mint | Trieste |
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The bishops of Trieste exercised mint rights during the high medieval period under grants from the Holy Roman Emperor, placing this issue within the broader phenomenon of ecclesiastical coinage that dominated northern Italian and Alpine monetary circulation before the rise of the great communal mints. Trieste itself sat at a friction point between the Patriarchate of Aquileia, the Empire, and the rising commercial ambitions of Venice — a rivalry that would eventually strip the bishops of effective political authority altogether.
The Luschin reference dates this type to the early thirteenth century on typological grounds, as documentary evidence for the exact grant of mint rights remains fragmentary.