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1 Filippo - Filippo IV
| Issuer | Milan, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1652-1657 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | The quartered arms of Spain and Milan displayed on an ornate baroque cartouche, incorporating the heraldic quarters of Castile, León, Aragon, Portugal, Granada, and the serpent of the Visconti for Milan, all surmounted by an imperial crown of elaborate form. The shield is flanked by bold acanthus-scroll and foliate ornaments in the high Baroque manner, with a pendant fleur-de-lys finial at the base. The circumferential Latin legend MEDIOLANI DVX ET C. identifies Philip IV as Duke of Milan. |
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| Mintage | 1652 - - 1657 - - |
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The Filippo was Milan's principal large silver denomination during the Spanish occupation, struck in the name of Philip IV of Spain as Duke of Milan — a title the Spanish crown held continuously from 1535. By the 1650s, Milan's mint was under chronic financial strain partly driven by the costs of the Franco-Spanish War, and the duchy's silver coinage suffered repeated debasement pressures that make weight consistency across this issue notably variable. The MIR attribution places this among the later die marriages of the type, distinguishable from earlier strikes by subtle punch differences in the mint's working dies.