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1 Florin - Antonio Maria Tizzone
| Issuer | County of Desana (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1618-1630 |
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| Value | 1 Florin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Desana was among the smallest feudal territories in northern Italy — a pocket county south of Vercelli whose total population rarely exceeded a few thousand. The Tizzone family held it under imperial grant, and Antonio Maria's decision to strike gold florins was less about monetary necessity than about asserting the jurisdictional privileges that came with coinage rights. For a county this size, minting was a political act first.
Fr#246 is genuinely scarce. Desana produced no significant volume of gold across its entire minting history, and the 1618–1630 window coincides with the early devastation of the Thirty Years' War disrupting north Italian trade networks.