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1 Scudo - Sebastiano Ferrero
| Issuer | Abbey of Fruttuaria (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1570 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse lettering | CRVX CHRISTI SALVA ME 1570 |
| Edge | Plain |
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The Abbey of Fruttuaria, founded in 1003 near San Benigno Canavese in Piedmont, held coining rights as a sovereign ecclesiastical entity — a privilege increasingly rare and contested by the mid-sixteenth century. Sebastiano Ferrero served as commendatory abbot, a system by which secular or clerical figures received abbey revenues without taking monastic vows, often wielding the minting prerogative as an expression of jurisdictional authority rather than any practical monetary need.
Issues from Fruttuaria are among the most sparsely documented of all Italian States ecclesiastical coinages. CNI II records only a handful of die varieties across the abbey's entire output.