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1 luigino - Filippo Spinola
| Issuer | Tassarolo, County of |
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| Year | 1665 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1665 |
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Luigini were struck by dozens of Italian feudal lords in the 1660s almost exclusively for export to the Levant, where they circulated as fractional currency in Ottoman-controlled markets. Tassarolo, a tiny county in the Ligurian Apennines under Genoese suzerainty, was among the more prolific participants — the Spinola family leveraged their mint rights aggressively during this window before the Ottoman authorities cracked down on the flood of underweight imitations and effectively closed the market by the late 1660s.
MIR 993 attributes multiple die marriages to this issue, with II#42/44 distinguishing a specific obverse-reverse pairing within the sequence.