1 Quattrino - Maria Theresia

Milan's quattrino coinage under Maria Theresia was part of a broader Habsbur reorganization of the duchy's fractional copper currency — a system that had been functionally chaotic for decades, with locally tolerated piccoli and denari of wildly inconsistent weight circulating alongside official issues. The Viennese reform push of the 1770s aimed to rationalize this, though the quattrino itself was an archaic Milanese unit retained more for local commercial habit than any monetary logic.

Production ran across three years with minimal variation between them, making date attribution on worn examples genuinely difficult.