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1 Ducato `Ongaro` - Vincent I Gonzaga
| Issuer | Duchy of Montferrat (Montferrat, Italian States) |
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| Year | 1587-1612 |
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| Diameter | 22 mm |
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| Obverse description | Full-length facing effigy of Vincenzo I Gonzaga in elaborately detailed plate armor, crowned, standing erect within the field. The duke holds regalia in his hands, with his figure rendered in the high-relief hammered style characteristic of late Renaissance Italian coinage. A beaded inner border frames the design, with the Latin legend distributed around the periphery reading VINC D G DVX MA IIII ET MON FE II, identifying him as Duke of Mantua IV and Marquis of Montferrat II. |
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| Obverse lettering | VINC D G DVX MA IIII ET MON FE II |
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Vincent I Gonzaga inherited Montferrat through his marriage to Margherita Farnese — a union later annulled — before securing the marquisate via his second wife, Margherita of Savoy. The "ongaro" denomination was not a Montferrat invention but a direct imitation of the Hungarian gold florin, a coin so trusted across European trade networks that Italian states routinely struck their own versions to participate in that commerce.
Montferrat's mint output under Vincent I was modest, and gold issues of this type are scarce survivors.