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1 Doppia - Filippo Spinola
| Issuer | County of Tassarolo (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1630 |
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| Weight | 6.55 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Filippo Spinola facing right, wearing period armour or court dress, with hair rendered in flowing curls. The effigy is set within a beaded or dotted inner circle. The peripheral legend PHILIPPVS SPINVLA runs around the obverse field in Latin capital letters. |
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| Reverse description | Crowned oval cartouche bearing the Spinola family coat of arms, set within an elaborate baroque decorative frame. The heraldic shield is surmounted by a count's crown. The circular Latin legend COMES TAS SAROLI concludes with the date 1630 at the end of the inscription. |
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Tassarolo was a tiny imperial fief in Liguria, and the Spinola family's right to strike coin there was a privilege extracted from the tangle of Holy Roman imperial grants rather than any economic necessity. In 1630, the county's population numbered in the hundreds. The coinage was never meant for local commerce — issues like this doppia functioned primarily as prestige objects and diplomatic currency, minted in small runs to assert feudal legitimacy during the Thirty Years' War, when such assertions carried real political weight.
Surviving examples in any condition are rare. The MIR census for this type records very few confirmed pieces.