CROATIA Grosso 1327-1438 Ragusa (Republic). PCGS XF40

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N° de certification PCGS: 47383523

État : XF40

Valeur nominale : Grosso

Ans : 1372

Nom: (1372-38) Grosso CNI-VI/14-26

Pays: Ragusa

Matériau: Silver

Variété principale: CNI-VI/14-26

Catalog Number: PCGS 615356

PCGS Catalog Number: 615356

1327-1438, Dalmatia, Ragusa (Republic). Silver Grosso (Grossus) Coin. PCGS XF40!

Mint Place: Dubrovnik
Mint Period: 1327-1438
Reference: CNI-VI/14-26.
Denomination: Grosso (Grossus)
Condition: Certified and graded by PCGS as XF-40!
Weight: ca. 1.4gm
Diameter: 20mm
Material: Silver

Obverse: St. Blasius standing facing, right hand raised in benediction and left hand holding crosier.
Legend: ST BLASIVS RAGUSII

Reverse: Christ standing facing within pearled mandorla, raising right hand in benediction and left hand holding Gospels. Christogram (IC-XC) at sides.

Saint Blaise (Greek: Agios Vlasios) was a physician, and bishop of Sebastea, Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey). According to his Acta Sanctorum, he was martyred by being beaten, attacked with iron carding combs, and beheaded.



St. Blaise is the patron saint of the city of Dubrovnik (where he is known as Sveti Vlaho) and formerly the protector of the independent Republic of Ragusa. At Dubrovnik his feast is celebrated yearly on 3 February, when relics of the saint, his head, a bit of bone from his throat, his right hand and his left, are paraded in reliquaries. The festivities begin the previous day, Candlemas, when white doves are released. Chroniclers of Dubrovnik such as Rastic and Ranjina attribute his veneration there to a vision in 971 to warn the inhabitants of an impending attack by the Venetians, whose galleys had dropped anchor in Gruz and near Lokrum, ostensibly to resupply their water but furtively to spy out the city's defenses. St. Blaise (Blasius) revealed their pernicious plan to Stojko, a canon of St. Stephen's Cathedral. The Senate summoned Stojko, who told them in detail how St. Blaise had appeared before him as an old man with a long beard and a bishop's mitre and staff. In this form the effigy of Blaise remained on Dubrovnik's state seal and coinage until the Napoleonic era.



The Republic of Ragusa (or Republic of Dubrovnik) was a maritime republic centred on the city of Ragusa (Dubrovnik, today in southernmost Croatia), in Dalmatia, from the 14th century AD until 1808. It reached its peak in the 15th and the 16th century before being conquered by Napoleon Bonaparte's Empire of France in 1808. It had a population of about 30,000 people, of which 5,000 lived within the city walls.

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