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1 Ducato - Gian Galeazzo Visconti
| Issuer | Milan (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1395-1402 |
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| Value | 1 Florin (2) |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Equestrian effigy of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan, depicted in full armour on horseback proceeding to the right, with his right arm raised and brandishing a drawn sword above his head. A round shield charged with the Visconti biscione is displayed at the horse's flank. The composition is rendered in the vigorous Gothic style characteristic of late fourteenth-century North Italian coinage. The circular legend in uncial Latin characters reads GALEAZ VICECOMES, distributed around the periphery with rosette stops, enclosed within a toothed rim. |
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Gian Galeazzo Visconti acquired the title Duke of Milan in 1395 by purchasing it from the financially desperate Holy Roman Emperor Wenceslaus IV for 100,000 florins — one of the more nakedly transactional moments in Italian political history. This ducato belongs to the first issues struck under that new ducal authority, making it among the earliest coinage to bear the formal title. Gian Galeazzo died in 1402 during the plague, at the moment his territorial ambitions in central Italy were closest to succeeding.