Savona coins catalog with values
Republic of Savona
After the fall of the Roman Empire, from the
5th century onwards the city suffered plundering by the Heruli
and the Goths. Only after falling under Byzantine rule after the
Gothic wars did Savona return to a brief period of peace and
quiet, which, however, ended with the arrival of the Lombard
king Rotari in 641. For some time Savona was part of the
Ligurian principality of the Lombard kingdom. Under the rule of
Charlemagne I the Great, maritime trade began to develop
actively in Savona.
After a period of struggle against Saracen pirates, during which
a number of watchtowers were built, in 1191 Savona declared
itself a free municipality. While in the 11th century Savona was
allied with the Genoese Republic, with the proclamation of the
free city a sharp enmity with Genoa began.
Savona flourished in the late 13th and mid-14th centuries, but
the peak of its economic development was in the late 15th and
early 16th centuries, when Sixtus IV (who initiated the creation
of the Sistine Chapel in Rome) and then Julius II (patron of
Raphael) were on the papal throne, descended from the Savona
family Della Rovere, who supported the city with substantial
investments. Since then, Savona has also been called the "City
of Popes". From the fourteenth century Savona minted its own
coinage, which lasted for about 200 years.
The rivalry with Genoa ended tragically for Savona in 1528, it
came under the rule of the Genoese Republic at the cost of
numerous victims and destruction: were destroyed the most
ancient acropolis, residential and religious buildings and most
of the towers belonging to noble families, as well as the port,
which in the XIV century was one of the five largest trading
ports in the Mediterranean.
Denar
denar no date (1396-1409)
copper
MONETA SAONE
COMVNIS SAONE
Value - 40-80 USD
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