ITALY, Brescia (Commune). AR Grosso (21mm, 2.07 g, 5h). Struck circa 1298-1310(?). S' ΛPOLOnIV' D' BRISIΛ ·, St. Apollonius seated facing, holding crozier in left hand and raising right in benediction / S' IOVITΛ · S' FΛVSTIN' , Sts. Jovita, holding gospel in right hand and long cross in left, and Faustinus, raising right hand in benediction, standing facing. MIR 111. Atttractively toned. EF. Very rare.
Ex Numismatica Genevensis SA 10 (3 December 2018), lot 331; Nomisma S.p.a. 55 (4 April 2017), lot 608; Varesi 65 (30 october 2014), lot 300.
The weight of this issue corresponds to that of the reduced Ambrosino of Milan (MIR 68), and is likely its contemporary.