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1 giulio Montalcino
| Issuer | Republic of Siena |
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| Year | 1556 |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded border flanked by two plain concentric circles, the Virgin Mary is depicted veiled and seated upon clouds, her body turned to the left, with both hands raised and extended in a gesture of intercession or prayer. Two angels flank and support her on either side. The composition reflects the Sienese devotion to the Virgin as protectress of the city, rendered in a late-medieval hammered style. A Latin legend surrounds the entire design within the outer circle. |
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| Reverse lettering | * TVO CONFISI PRAESIDIO * |
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Montalcino was the last refuge of the Sienese Republic after the fall of Siena itself to Florentine and Imperial forces in 1555. A rump state under French protection, it survived until 1559 when the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis extinguished it entirely — ending one of the longest-lived Italian city-republics. Coinage struck there in 1556 belongs to that desperate final chapter, produced by a government in exile with dwindling resources and no real territorial base beyond a single hilltop town.
MIR 341 is among the more elusive giulio types from this emission, with the XI series showing notable die variation across the surviving specimens.