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Quattrino - Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta Saint Julian
| Issuer | Rimini |
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| Year | 1432-1446 |
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| Diameter | 17 mm |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta ran Rimini as a personal fiefdom of relentless ambition and periodic brutality — excommunicated twice, eventually subjected to a symbolic burning in effigy by Pius II in 1461. The quattrino issues of his earlier reign, before the papacy made him a formal enemy, reflect a lord still operating within the practical conventions of northern Italian civic coinage, relying on billon fractions to keep small commerce functioning in a city whose economy depended heavily on his military payroll.
Saint Julian as patron of Rimini predates Malatesta control of the city by centuries. His persistence on this type is conventional, not devotional.