1 Quattrino - Ferdinand IV

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.