Tassarolo was among the smallest of the imperial fiefs scattered across Liguria — a pocket territory whose mint output was negligible by any commercial measure. The Spinola family held it under Habsburg grant, and the right to strike gold was as much a prestige instrument as a financial one. Filippo Spinola's ducati were issued across a seventy-year span, which almost certainly reflects multiple individuals of the same name rather than a single lifetime issue, though the coinage was never differentiated by regnal year.
The MIR census records surviving examples as rare. Most known pieces come from old Italian collections.
Tassarolo was among the smallest of the imperial fiefs scattered across Liguria — a pocket territory whose mint output was negligible by any commercial measure. The Spinola family held it under Habsburg grant, and the right to strike gold was as much a prestige instrument as a financial one. Filippo Spinola's ducati were issued across a seventy-year span, which almost certainly reflects multiple individuals of the same name rather than a single lifetime issue, though the coinage was never differentiated by regnal year.
The MIR census records surviving examples as rare. Most known pieces come from old Italian collections.