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The paper presents the results of the PhD research project on "The first 100 years of the gold florin of Florence (1252-1351)", carried out at the Universities of Granada (Spain) and Ca’ Foscari of Venice (Italy). The research has involved several museums and institutions in Europe, with the acquisition of new data on documentary sources, archaeological finds and numismatic collections. Through the examination of the most significant specimens contained in two Polish hoards discovered in 1991 and 1988, the history of the Florentine gold florin over the course of a century will be outlined, presenting a complete classification of privy marks, updated chronologies and a new field of investigation: “unsigned” imitations of the Florentine gold florin. It thus offers a new key for understanding the production and circulation of this coin and its various imitations on European markets during the first half of the 14th century.
