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1 Quattrino - Ferdinand IV
| Issuer | State of the Presidi |
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| Year | 1782-1798 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1, MIR#412, C#1 |
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| Reverse lettering | A· P· REALI PRESIDII QVATTRINO 17 I 91 (Translation: Royal Presidi Quattrino) |
| Edge | Plain |
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The State of the Presidi was a peculiar Spanish — and later Bourbon Neapolitan — enclave on the Tuscan coast, a relic of the 1559 Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis that persisted stubbornly into the late eighteenth century. Ferdinand IV of Naples inherited this odd territorial fragment and struck coins for it as a distinct issuing authority, which is the sole reason a 16mm copper piece carries the name of a state most contemporary Italians would have struggled to locate on a map. The Presidi were absorbed into the Kingdom of Etruria in 1801, making this issue's production window of roughly sixteen years its entire numismatic history.