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1 giulio Montalcino
| Issuer | Republic of Siena |
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| Year | 1556 |
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| Value | 1 Giulio (160) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded border flanked by two plain concentric circles, the she-wolf of Siena is depicted in the field with her head turned to the left and lowered toward the suckling twins (Romulus and Remus) nursing beneath her. The date 1556 appears below the central device, accompanied by the engraver's personal mark. The peripheral legend, struck in Latin, runs continuously around the outer circle. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.