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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gapukas, post: 3662372, member: 106473&quot;]1461 - Central Italy</p><p><br /></p><p>Struck under an authorization of 8 April 1461 granted as a reward for the</p><p>loyalty of the town during the troubles of 1459-60 they have for the types a</p><p>representation of St Mannus, the local saint, with the mint identified by</p><p>the legend DE CIVITA DVCALI or DE CIVITA D. Two denominations also shown symbols taken from the city arms, the double bolognino a tower as inital mark of the reverse, the quattrino a rake above the Florentine lily that forms its reverse type. Cosenza in Calabria has been treated by some scholars as a distinct mint on the authority of an extract from a treasury document published by G. V. Fusco referring to the expenses of minting tornesi in the castle there between march 1460 and november 1461. A number of coins of Ferrante and his successors bearing the cross of Calabria as a reverse type were attributed to it by Fusco and, hesitantly, by Cagiati, but apart from the presence of the cross of Calabria there are no grounds for such attributions. The reference is clearly to temporary minting there during the civil war and the coins struck would have been similar to the those of Naples, though possible marked with the inital of a local mint-master, and are so far unknown.</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/LqJHuKn.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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