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The Florentine gold florin, first minted in 1252, is widely recognized as one of the most famous coins of the Medieval West. A new monograph to be published by the Italian Ministry of Culture in the Bollettino di Numismatica sheds new light on this coinage, presenting the results of a recent PhD research project carried out at the Universities of Granada and Ca’ Foscari of Venice in collaboration with several museums, including the Museo Nazionale Romano (Medagliere) where the collection of Vittorio Emanuele III is preserved. The work includes a complete and updated corpus of the different issues of the gold florin, also taking into account previously unidentified “unsigned” imitations. The new book will be a valuable reference for historians, archaeologists and numismatists expected to contribute to a better understanding of the role that the gold florin played in the so-called Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages in Europe.
