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1 Fiorino - Ferdinand I
| Issuer | Mantua, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1848 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | REX. LOMB. ET. VEN. DALM. - GAL. LOD. ILL. A. A. (Translation: King of Lombardy and Venetia, Dalmatia, Galicia and Lodomeria, Illyria, Archduke of Austria.) |
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The 1848 Mantuan fiorino belongs to the revolutionary ferment of that year's Five Days of Milan and the broader Risorgimento uprisings across northern Italy. When Lombardy-Venetia briefly threw off Austrian control, several subject cities reasserted local coinage rights that had long been suppressed under Habsburg administration. Mantua, however, remained under Austrian siege and garrison throughout 1848 — making the political circumstances of this particular emission unusually tense, the city effectively minting under blockade conditions.
The dual KM references reflect cataloging disputes over whether this issue falls under Italian states or Austrian imperial series.