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1 Francescone - Pietro Leopoldo
| Issuer | Tuscany, Grand Duchy of |
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| Year | 1790 |
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| Currency | Lira (1533-1826) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1790 |
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Pietro Leopoldo struck this issue in the final months before abdicating the Tuscan throne to succeed his brother Joseph II as Holy Roman Emperor — he departed Florence in March 1790 and never returned. The Francescone series had been his workhorse trade coin throughout a two-decade reign that saw Tuscany become something of a laboratory for Enlightenment fiscal reform, including the abolition of torture and the world's first modern penal code.
The 1790 date therefore marks an accidental terminus: coins struck that year were not a planned farewell issue but simply the last production run before the machinery of succession interrupted everything.