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1 Demi giulio
| Issuer | Siena Republic |
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| Year | 1540-1541 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ALPH • ET • ω • PRINC • ET • FIN |
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Siena's republican coinage of the early 1540s was produced under mounting pressure from both Charles V and Florence, a decade before the city's catastrophic fall in 1555 following a brutal fourteen-month siege. The demi giulio denomination itself was tied to papal monetary influence — the giulio, introduced by Julius II, had become a reference unit across central Italian states whether they acknowledged Rome's authority or not.
MIR 550 is a scarce type, with surviving examples concentrated in a handful of Italian institutional collections.