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1 Gazetta
| Issuer | Septinsular Republic (1800-1814) |
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| Year | 1801 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | 1801 |
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The Septinsular Republic — the Ionian Islands under nominal Ottoman suzerainty and Russian protection — was the first nominally self-governing Greek state since the Ottoman conquest, predating the independent Greek kingdom by three decades. This 1801 copper issue was among the earliest coins produced under that arrangement, struck just a year after the republic's formal constitution was ratified in Constantinople. The political reality was complicated: French Revolutionary forces had seized the islands from Venice in 1797, only to lose them to a joint Russo-Ottoman operation in 1799.
KM#1 status confirms this as the foundational type of the entire republic's coinage.