1668 - date in the legend -
1668 - date on either side of the shield -
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The luigino was never intended for Monaco's domestic economy. These small silver coins were struck by dozens of minor European princes in the 1660s specifically for export to the Levant trade, where Ottoman merchants accepted them by weight alongside Ottoman akçe. Louis I issued them under his Italian title — Luigi — precisely because the series demanded that idiom. The scheme collapsed around 1668–1670 when the Ottoman authorities cracked down on the flood of underweight imitations saturating the eastern Mediterranean markets.
The luigino was never intended for Monaco's domestic economy. These small silver coins were struck by dozens of minor European princes in the 1660s specifically for export to the Levant trade, where Ottoman merchants accepted them by weight alongside Ottoman akçe. Louis I issued them under his Italian title — Luigi — precisely because the series demanded that idiom. The scheme collapsed around 1668–1670 when the Ottoman authorities cracked down on the flood of underweight imitations saturating the eastern Mediterranean markets.