1 Denaro "Piccolo" - Francis I of Carrara 1355-1388

Weight

0.35 g

Diameter

12 mm

Thickness

NA

Material

Billon

Shape

Round (irregular)

Edge Type

Plain

Technique

Hammered

Front design

Six-rayed star, which divides legend and inner linear circle.

Back design

Large gothic "F" within inner linear circle.

Year of Minting

1355-1388

Lord

Francis I the Old ( 1350-1388 )

Mint location

NA

Mint mark

NA

Orientation

Medal alignment ↑↑

Inscriptions

Obverse: PADVA Reverse: ✠ CIVITAS F

Context

Scyphate coin. Scyphate is a term frequently used in numismatics to refer to the concave or "cup-shaped" Byzantine coins of the 11th–14th centuries. This usage emerged in the 19th century, when the term scyphatus, attested in south Italian documents of the 11th and 12th centuries, was erroneously interpreted as deriving from the Greek word skyphos (σκύφος, "cup"). In reality, the term probably derives from the Arabic word shafah, "edge, rim", and refers to the distinctive and conspicuous border of the early histamena gold coins. Due to this misunderstanding, the term "scyphate" has been widely applied to the concave gold, silver, and copper coins of the late Byzantine Empire and the foreign issues imitating it. These coins are more properly designated as trachea (singular: trachy, from Greek τραχύ, "rough, uneven"). It is distinguished from the "Denaro Piccolo" of "Francesco I Da Carrara" by being a scyphate coin. CIVITAS (a term which, in the Latin political and juridical conception, designated the city-state, corresponding to the Polis of the Greeks; it also indicated the ensemble of citizens, distinguishing itself in this from urbs, which instead indicated the city as a complex of buildings and walls.)

Rarity

Ultra rare

Coin type

Standard circulation

In circulation

No

Demonetized

Yes

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