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1 crazia - Giacomo VII Appiani

Issuer Piombino, Principality of
Year 1595-1597
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Currency Lira (1595-1699)
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Giacomo VII Appiani ruled Piombino for barely a decade before dying in 1603, leaving a tiny coastal principality that survived largely because the great powers found it more useful as a buffer than a conquest. The crazia was a small-denomination billon issue specific to Tuscan monetary tradition, and Piombino's versions circulated in a region already saturated with coinage from Florence, Lucca, and Siena — making survival in any condition genuinely uncommon.

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