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Soldino - Thomas of Campofregoso, 1st Reign
| Issuer | Republic of Genoa |
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| Year | 1415-1421 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central gateway motif dividing the doge's initials, with the mint official's sigla positioned below the arch. The gateway design is enclosed within an eight-lobed polylobe border, each lobe accented with a pellet, surrounded by a beaded circle. The field retains the characteristic sparse, flat relief typical of Genoese hammered silver coinage of the early fifteenth century. The doge's title and numeral appear in the surrounding legend rendered in uncial Latin characters. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thomas of Campofregoso seized the dogeship in 1415 after years of factional struggle between the Fregoso and Adorno clans that had turned Genoese politics into a revolving door of coups and counter-coups. His first reign lasted just six years before he was displaced — he would return twice more, a pattern typical of Genoese doges in this period who governed less by mandate than by the temporary exhaustion of their rivals.
The soldino was Genoa's workhorse small silver, circulating heavily through Ligurian trade networks and the Black Sea colonies. MEC XII registers three die varieties across this reign.