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1/2 Lira - John Galeazzo Maria Sforza
| Issuer | Genoa, Republic of (1139-1797) |
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| Year | 1492-1494 |
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| Value | 1/2 Lira |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A cross pattée centered within a polylobe inner border, with a star placed in two of the four quadrants formed by the arms of the cross. The polylobe is enclosed between two thin solid circles with a thicker reeded circle between them, mirroring the obverse border treatment. The surrounding Latin legend invokes Conrad, King of the Romans, following the traditional Genoese monetary formula, and terminates with the initial mark of the responsible mint official. |
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Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza never actually ruled Genoa — his uncle Ludovico il Moro held him as a figurehead Duke of Milan while exercising real power, and Genoa's submission to Milanese authority during these years meant coinage struck in the city bore the name of a man who was, in practice, a prisoner in his own court. Gian Galeazzo died in 1494, almost certainly poisoned, within weeks of Charles VIII's French army crossing into Italy — an invasion that would end Sforza control of Genoa entirely.