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1 Soldo - Maria Theresia
| Issuer | Mantua, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1750-1757 |
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| Value | 1 Soldo (1⁄160) |
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| Obverse description | Central device featuring a radiant sun in splendour with a facing human visage, surrounded by alternating straight and wavy rays filling the field. The circumferential legend in Latin reads MAR • THR • IM • R • DVX • MAN • followed by the date, referencing Maria Theresia as Empress of Rome and Duchess of Mantua. The legend is separated from the central device by a plain inner border, with a finely toothed or milled outer rim encircling the entire obverse. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a bold three-line inscription in the field reading SOLDO DI • MAN TOVA, denoting the denomination and place of issue (Mantova), arranged across three registers. Small rosette or floral ornaments punctuate the field above and below the legend, serving as decorative separators. The plain field is enclosed by a toothed or milled outer rim consistent with the obverse, giving the coin a uniform decorative border. |
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Mantua passed to Habsburg control in 1708 following the War of the Spanish Succession, and by mid-century its coinage was being issued in Vienna's name while local minting traditions were still nominally observed. The soldo denomination served the lowest tier of daily commerce in the duchy — markets, tolls, small transactions — and copper issues from this period circulated hard and long, which makes problem-free survivors genuinely scarce.
MIR 765 encompasses the full run of this type across the reign period, but die varieties exist within the sequence that specialists have not fully catalogued.