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1 Sesino - Filippo I

Issuer Piacenza, Duchy of
Year 1748-1765
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Value 1 Sesino (1⁄40)
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Reverse description A bold foliate cross with decorative terminals occupies the central field, dividing the design into four quarters. The cross arms feature stylized leaf-like ornaments at their ends, lending an elaborate Gothic character to the composition. The Latin legend SALVS - MVNDI is distributed around the cross in the field.
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Filippo I — Philip, Duke of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla — came into possession of these territories in 1748 under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the War of the Austrian Succession and carved out a new Italian duchy for a Bourbon prince. The sesino was the smallest copper unit in local circulation, and Piacenza's mint operated under French administrative influence throughout Philip's reign, a pressure felt in the duchy's broader fiscal and monetary reorganization after decades of Austrian control.

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