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1 Quattrino - Giovan Battista Ludovisi
| Issuer | Piombino, Principality of |
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| Year | 1692-1694 |
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| Thickness | 0.65 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The abbreviated legend is arranged in three lines across the central field within a decorative baroque cartouche adorned with foliate curls and scrollwork. The upper portion features a prominent floral or foliate ornament above the text. The date 1693 appears in the lower portion of the field. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border consistent with the obverse. |
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Giovan Battista Ludovisi ruled Piombino for only three years before dying without legitimate heirs, ending the Ludovisi family's hold on the principality and triggering a succession dispute that eventually passed the domain to the Boncompagni family. The quattrino was the smallest denomination in circulation, and copper issues of this brevity of reign survive in genuinely limited numbers — not by collector demand at the time, but simply because so few were struck across so short a window.