Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1831. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Aquileia. Gregorio di Montelongo. Patriarch, 1251-1269. AR Denaro (1.15 g, 6h). Struck circa 1269. · GRЄGORI´ · ЄLЄCTVS ·, Gregorio, in patriarchal vestments, standing facing, holding Gospels / · CIVITAS AQVILЄGIA (S horizontal), Gregorio, in patriarchal vestments, and St. Ermagora, in episcopal vestments, standing facing, holding cross-tipped staff between them. CNI VI 1; Bernardi 18; Biaggi 145. EF, toned.

Ex Hess-Divo 274 (26 March 1998), lot 115.

In the early 13th century, Aquileia enjoyed much prosperity and trade thanks to its location near to sea and a good network of roads. As a result of a series of natural disasters in the 14th century, however, the population of the city was greatly reduced, down to only a few hundred.