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1 Lira - Ferdinando I Gonzaga
| Issuer | Principality of Castiglione delle Stiviere |
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| Year | 1616-1678 |
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| Currency | Lira |
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| Obverse description | Quartered heraldic shield displaying the complex arms of the Gonzaga dynasty, surmounted by a princely crown with elaborate mantling. The shield is divided into multiple quarters featuring eagles, lions, and horizontal barry fields, characteristic of the Gonzaga dynastic arms. A beaded inner circle frames the central device. The peripheral legend in Latin reads FERDINANDVS D G PRIN CASTI, identifying the issuer as Ferdinand by the Grace of God Prince of Castiglione, interrupted by the shield at top and sides. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Castiglione delle Stiviere was a tiny imperial fief in Lombardy whose Gonzaga branch maintained the right to strike coinage largely as a prestige exercise — the principality's territory was barely large enough to sustain a court, let alone a meaningful monetary economy. Ferdinando I ruled from 1616 until his death in 1678, an unusually long tenure that accounts for the broad date range attributed to this type, though the actual period of active minting was almost certainly far narrower.
CNI IV records only four specimens across references 9–12, suggesting survival is genuinely limited rather than merely understudied.