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1 Sesino - Ferdinando
| Issuer | Parma and Piacenza, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1783-1798 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1783 - Lettering FERD·I·D·G·H·I·PA·PLA·ET V·VUX - 1783 - Lettering FERD·I·H·D·G·PAR·V·DVX; CNI#7 - 1784 - CNI#4 - 1785 - CNI#62 - 1786 - Lettering FERD·I·H·I·D·G·PAR·P·V·DVX; CNI#80 - 1786 - Lettering FERD·I·H·I·D·G·PAR·PLAC·VA·DVX; CNI#79 - 1787 - CNI#88 - 1788 - CNI#91 - 1790 - CNI#108 - 1791 - CNI#115 - 1792 - CNI#126 - 1793 - CNI#134 - 1795 - CNI#146 - 1796 - CNI#156; Contemporary counterfeits - 1797 - CNI#162; Contemporary counterfeits - 1798 - CNI#164 - |
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Ferdinando di Borbone ruled Parma as an effectively autonomous duchy under heavy French cultural influence — his court hosted Condillac as tutor and became an unlikely Enlightenment outpost in northern Italy. The sesino was the smallest copper denomination in regular circulation, and Ferdinando's issues of it spanning the 1780s and 1790s were struck against an increasingly unstable political backdrop that ended only when Napoleon absorbed the duchy into France in 1802.