Ragusa's final silver coinage. The Republic was abolished by Napoleon in 1806, making this brief issue — struck across only three years — among the last acts of a polity that had maintained independence for nearly five centuries through careful diplomacy, strategic neutrality, and the occasional well-placed bribe. The Napoleonic reorganization of the Adriatic rendered the city-state politically inconvenient.
KM#27 is the definitive attribution, though examples vary noticeably in strike quality owing to the Republic's diminished mint capacity in its closing years.
Ragusa's final silver coinage. The Republic was abolished by Napoleon in 1806, making this brief issue — struck across only three years — among the last acts of a polity that had maintained independence for nearly five centuries through careful diplomacy, strategic neutrality, and the occasional well-placed bribe. The Napoleonic reorganization of the Adriatic rendered the city-state politically inconvenient.
KM#27 is the definitive attribution, though examples vary noticeably in strike quality owing to the Republic's diminished mint capacity in its closing years.