1 Scudo d'Oro - Gregory XIII

Gregory XIII is remembered primarily for the 1582 calendar reform that bears his name, but his pontificate was equally consumed by the political fallout from the Council of Trent and the financing of Catholic League military efforts. The Ancona mint operated under papal authority as one of several provincial mints permitted to strike scudi, though output from Ancona consistently ran below that of Rome — surviving examples attributable to this mint are correspondingly scarcer than their Roman counterparts.

MIR 1200 distinguishes two die variants across the issue's span, a detail worth cross-referencing against the Berman attribution before cataloging.