1 Denaro - Valenza

Features

Issuer	Valenza (Italian States)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	1447-1457
Composition	Bilon
Weight	0.38 g
Diameter	14 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 536780
References	MIR PSLC# 1032 Alberto Varesi; 2004. Monete Italiane Regionali / Volume 2. Piemonte, Sardegna, Liguria, Isola di Corsica (2^nd Edition). Numismatica Varesi, Pavia, Italy. , CNI II# 1, p.423 Victor Emmanuel of Savoy; 1911. Corpus Nummorum Italicorum / Volume 2. Piemonte – Sardegna : zecche d'oltremonti di Casa Savoia: Primo tentativo di un Catalogo generale delle monete medievali e moderne coniate in Italia o da Italiani in altri paesi. Carlo Colombo, Rome, Italy.

Obverse

Krzyż z liliowymi końcami. Wokół łacińska legenda. Automatically translated

Script: łaciński

Lettering: ✠ COMVNS · & LOCI VA ·

Unabridged legend: Comunitatis et loci Valentie

Reverse

(en) Bust of Saint Antonius or Georgius facing, in inner reeded circle, surrounded by legend.

Script: łaciński

Lettering: ✠ SI · AN · & · GE · AST · TVTOR

Unabridged legend: Sancti Antonius et Georgius Astiliani, tutores

Edge

Zwykły Automatically translated

Mint

Valenza, Italy

Comments

(en)

This mysterious coin first came to light in the Casargo hoard (c. 1890 in Lake Como district), and was attributed to Valenza by Ambrosoli in a 1901 paper in Rivista Italiana Numismatica. This attribution was then used in the Corpus Nummorun Italicorum, Vol. II (1911).

Clearly it imitates the denaro struck by the Ambrosian Republic of 1447-1450 (see link), a time when Valenza had come under the authority of the duke of Savoy (Day, et al., MEC 12, p. 240). By 1454, Valenza was again under the conntrol of Milan.

Day et al. in MEC 12 point out that there is no documentary evidence for a medieval mint in Valenza, and that the few coins with known provenance came from the Lake Como area, over 150 km from Valenza. They don't suggest a new attribution, but feel that the coins were contemporary counterfeits with an origin farther north.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (1447-1457)

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