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1 Scudo
| Issuer | Republic of Lucca |
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| Year | 1754-1756 |
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| Composition | Silver (.916) |
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| Obverse lettering | LUCENSIS RESPUBLICA 1754 (Translation: Saint Martin) |
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| Mintage | 1754 - - 1755 - - 1756 - - |
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Lucca was one of the few Italian city-states to preserve genuine republican government well into the eighteenth century, a relic of medieval communal independence that made it a constitutional curiosity among its neighbors. The scudo issues of the 1750s were minted under the authority of the Council of Elders — not a prince, not a pope — and the absence of a dynastic portrait on a coin of this size and metal was, by that point in European history, genuinely anomalous.
The MIR 237/13 designation places this among the later die marriages in the type's run, a series with enough documented varieties to suggest the Lucchese mint was working with multiple obverse and reverse dies simultaneously across the three-year emission.