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1 Scudo - Odardo Farnese
| Issuer | Parma and Piacenza, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1626-1630 |
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| Value | 1 Scudo (6) |
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| Reverse description | Half-length armored figure of Saint Vitalis facing right, wearing plate armor and raising his right hand in a gesture of blessing or protection, with the denomination inscription SCVDO in the exergue below. The surrounding legend ·S·VITALIS·PARME·PROTECTOR· identifies the saint as the protector of Parma. The composition reflects the devotional iconographic conventions common to Italian ducal coinage of the seventeenth century. The field is relatively flat with bold, well-struck relief. |
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| Mintage | 1626 - - ND (1626-1630) - - 1627 - - 1628 - - 1629 - - 1630 - Not in Krause - |
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Odoardo Farnese inherited the duchies of Parma and Piacenza in 1622 at age fifteen, and his early coinage reflects the ambitions of a minor Italian ruler determined to project authority disproportionate to his territory. His later decision to align with France against the Habsburgs in the Wars of Castro would prove catastrophic — but these scudi predate that overreach, struck during a brief window of relative stability before the duchy's finances collapsed under military adventurism. The Dav EC II reference places this among a small cluster of issues that numismatists use to reconstruct Odoardo's monetary chronology, as documentary mint records from Parma for this period are fragmentary.