1 Scudo, 6 Lire

The Cisalpine Republic was a French client state established by Napoleon in 1797 after his Italian campaign, and this scudo belongs to one of the most politically unstable periods in its short existence — by 1800, the republic had already been dissolved and reconstituted once following the Austrian counter-offensive of 1799. The coinage itself was a deliberate act of institutional legitimacy, asserting republican continuity even as French military fortunes in Italy hung on the outcome of the Marengo campaign.

The .896 fineness follows the Cisalpine monetary standard rather than the French germinal franc system, making these issues transitional artifacts of a monetary order that would be swept away entirely when Napoleon reorganized northern Italy into the Italian Republic in 1802.