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1 Scudo
| Issuer | Republic of Lucca |
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| Year | 1753 |
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| Value | 1 Scudo |
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| Obverse description | Centrally positioned heraldic achievement of the Republic of Lucca: a horizontally hatched escutcheon bearing the word LIBERTAS on a diagonal band, supported on either side by a rampant lion, the whole surmounted by an open mural crown adorned with floral ornaments. The shield rests on decorative baroque scrollwork. The circular legend LUCENSIS RESPUBLICA is arranged around the periphery, with the date 1753 placed in the lower exergual area beneath the supporters. |
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| Reverse description | Saint Martin of Tours depicted as a mounted Roman soldier on a rearing horse, rendered in high relief in the Baroque manner. The saint, helmeted and in military dress, extends his sword arm toward a nearly nude beggar standing to the right, in the act of dividing his cloak. Vegetation and rocky ground occupy the lower field. The circumferential legend SANCTUS MARTINUS is arranged around the periphery in large capital letters. |
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Lucca was one of the last Italian city-states to maintain genuine republican governance well into the eighteenth century, a constitutional oddity that made its coinage politically distinctive. The Scudo series issued under the Republic carries no ruler's portrait precisely because Lucca's oligarchic constitution forbade the glorification of any individual — a deliberate institutional choice that sets these coins apart from virtually every other Italian silver of the period.
The 1753 date falls within the final decades before Napoleon's dissolution of the Republic in 1799.