1/2 Scudo - Franz I

The half scudo denomination survived in Lombardy-Venetia as a concession to regional monetary convention — northern Italian populations were deeply accustomed to scudo-based accounting, and Austria's administrators understood that forcing an abrupt transition to the florin system would generate unnecessary friction in already restive territories. Franz I had absorbed these lands formally through the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and the retention of familiar coinage was a calculated administrative choice, not an oversight.

The Milan mint struck this type throughout the run. Its C#7 attribution places it among the earliest organized issues for the kingdom under Austrian administration.