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1 Sesino - Francesco I Sforza
| Issuer | Duchy of Milan (Milan, Italian States) |
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| Year | 1452-1456 |
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| Value | 1 Sesino (1⁄40) |
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| Obverse lettering | FRANCISC SFO DVX MLI (Translation: Francesco Sforza Dux of Milan) |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Francesco I Sforza seized Milan in 1450 after a prolonged siege, ending the short-lived Ambrosian Republic and founding the Sforza dynasty. The sesino was a fractional denomination essential to everyday Lombard commerce — the currency of markets, not courts — and Francesco's decision to place his name on even this minor silver carried deliberate political weight for a man whose claim rested on military force rather than dynastic right. His condottiere past made legitimacy through coinage particularly urgent.
MIR MI#182 covers a four-year emission window during which the new regime was still consolidating its monetary administration from the Visconti-era mint infrastructure it had inherited.