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1 paolo - Albéric Ier
| Issuer | Massa-Carrara, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1567 |
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| Currency | Lira |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded border, a crowned and ornately decorated cartouche bearing the quartered arms of the Cybo and Medici families — the combined Samnite shield of the ruling house — occupies the central field. The date 1567 is divided and placed on either side of the cartouche. A circular Latin legend surrounds the entire composition, recording the titles and domains of Duke Alberico I Cybo-Malaspina. |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded border, Saint Peter is depicted standing facing, unhaloed, holding a large key in his right hand and a book in his left hand, rendered in the flat linear style characteristic of mid-sixteenth-century Italian hammered coinage. A circular Latin legend surrounding the figure identifies the patron saint and the mint city of Massa. |
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Alberico I Cybo-Malaspina secured the elevation of Massa to a duchy in 1568 — meaning this paolo was struck in the final year before that change in title, under the marquisate. The paolo denomination itself was a papal monetary unit that spread across northern Italian states during the sixteenth century, its adoption by small signorie like Massa serving a practical need for interoperability with the currencies of larger neighbors rather than any monetary independence.