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1 Doppia - Conrad II
| Issuer | Republic of Genoa |
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| Year | 1600-1637 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Genoese doppia occupied an awkward position in early seventeenth-century Mediterranean commerce — nominally a Republican issue, yet bearing the name of a Holy Roman Emperor dead since 1039. Genoa had invoked Conrad II's name on its coinage since the twelfth century as a deliberate assertion of imperial legitimacy for its mint rights, a legal fiction maintained so long it became tradition.
The nearly four-decade span of this type reflects Genoa's remarkable monetary conservatism during a period when the city's bankers were financing half the wars of Europe through the Piacenza fairs.