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1 Quattrino - Carlo II
| Issuer | Milan, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1675-1700 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Unadorned draped bust of Charles II facing right, with long flowing hair falling to the shoulder, set within a plain inner circle. The youthful effigy is rendered in a somewhat crude provincial style typical of late 17th-century Milanese copper coinage. The encircling legend reads CAROLVS II REX H (Charles II, King of Spain), disposed around the bust between the inner circle and an outer beaded border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Carlo II of Spain held the Duchy of Milan as a Crown possession throughout his reign, but the duchy retained its own mint and coinage system under local governors. Carlo himself — intellectually disabled, epileptic, and the product of generations of Habsburg inbreeding — was functionally incapable of governing, leaving Milan administered by a succession of Spanish-appointed regents. The quattrino was the lowest practical copper denomination in Milanese circulation, struck in large quantities precisely because the working poor had little use for silver.
The CNI attribution places this among a well-documented run, though die workmanship on copper issues of this period is notoriously inconsistent across the long date range.