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1 Sesino - Scipione Gonzaga
| Issuer | Bozzolo |
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| Year | 1636-1670 |
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| Currency | Lira (1497-1670) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Scipione Gonzaga facing right, with short beard, set within a circular Latin legend. The portrait is rendered in low relief in the hammered style typical of small Italian feudal copper coinage of the seventeenth century. The peripheral legend reads SCIP·GON·DVX·SAB·, abbreviated from Scipione Gonzaga, Duke of Sabbioneta. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Bozzolo was one of the smallest and most precarious of the Gonzaga cadet lordships — a sliver of territory in the Po plain that survived largely through careful neutrality and Habsburg tolerance. Scipione Gonzaga ruled from 1613 to 1670, outlasting the main Mantuan branch, which was catastrophically extinguished during the Sack of Mantua in 1630. That devastation left Bozzolo briefly exposed but ultimately untouched, and small copper issues like this sesino continued circulating in a region still recovering decades later.
The CNI IV attribution places this firmly within a well-documented local series, though the 34-year span of the date range suggests dies were used and reused well past their prime.