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1/4 Scudo - Filippo Spinola
| Issuer | Marquisate of Arquata |
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| Year | 1644 |
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| Reference(s) | CNI II#1 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Arquata del Bosco was a tiny imperial fief in the Ligurian Apennines, and the Spinola family's right to strike coin there derived from a grant of the Holy Roman Empire — one of dozens of such minting privileges scattered across fragmented northern Italy. Filippo Spinola exercised that right aggressively in the 1640s, producing fractional silver at a moment when Spanish military expenditure in the region was consuming coinage faster than established mints could supply it. The CNI records only a single obverse die pairing for this quarter scudo, suggesting extremely limited output.