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Sestino - Republic
| Issuer | Spoleto (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1300-1450 |
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| Diameter | 18 mm |
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| Obverse description | A cross pattée divides the central field into four quarters, each containing a small rosette ornament. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the inscription running in the surrounding legend. The overall style is characteristic of central Italian communal coinage of the late medieval period, with bold, deeply struck geometric forms typical of hammered billon issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | DE SPOLETO (Translation: ... of Spoleto) |
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Spoleto's civic coinage of this period reflects the town's contested position between papal authority and local signorie — the commune struck its own billon issues during intervals of relative autonomy, though Rome repeatedly reasserted control throughout the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The sestino denomination itself was a fractional workhorse of central Italian commerce, circulating alongside the heavier grosso in local markets and tolls.