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1 Doppia - Filippo Spinola
| Issuer | County of Tassarolo (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1640 |
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| Value | 1 Doppia |
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| Obverse description | Draped and armored bust of Filippo Spinola facing right, with flowing hair, rendered in high relief in the Italian Baroque manner. The effigy is finely detailed, showing articulated armor at the shoulder and collar. The circumferential Latin legend reads PHILIPPVS COMES TASS, identifying the issuer as Count of Tassarolo. The legend is separated from the central device by a plain inner border, with a beaded outer border encircling the entire design. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Tassarolo was a tiny imperial fief in the Ligurian Apennines, nominally subject to the Holy Roman Emperor but effectively within the gravitational pull of Genoa. Filippo Spinola — a member of the same banking dynasty that had financed Spanish armies across Europe — held the county and exercised the minting rights that came with it. Those rights were jealously guarded precisely because they were so easily abused: small fiefdoms like Tassarolo frequently struck gold coins to imperial weight standards while quietly shaving the fineness, profiting on the spread.
Surviving examples are rare. The county's output was never large, and Doppie of this date are seldom encountered outside major auction appearances.