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Pfennig - Pellegrino II
| Issuer | Patriarchate of Aquileia (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1195-1204 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Stylized architectural facade of the Basilica of Aquileia, featuring a central domed structure flanked by two towers, all rising above an open arcade of rounded arches supported on columns; a large cross appears prominently below the arcade in the lower field. The entire composition is contained within a beaded double circle. The rendering is highly schematic, consistent with the Romanesque artistic conventions of late 12th-century Friulian ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pellegrino II della Torre held the patriarchate during a period of intense conflict between Aquileia and the rising communes of Friuli, and his coinage reflects the institutional ambition of a church-state pressing its temporal authority hard against secular encroachment. The Patriarchate had held minting rights since the 10th century, but issues under Pellegrino II show a distinct effort to assert that privilege visually and economically across a fractious territory.
Bernardi 9 is among the scarcer attributable types of this reign, with surviving examples thin enough that die studies remain inconclusive on the full sequence of production.