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`1 Tallero del leone` - Albéric Ier
| Issuer | Duchy of Massa-Carrara (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1596 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | MO NO AR RIN MAS |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Alberico I Cybo-Malaspina ruled Massa from 1554 until his death in 1623, navigating the duchy through Spanish imperial dominance over northern Italy with considerable political agility. The leone tallero — named for the lion featured in the Cybo arms — was struck to the weight standard of the imperial thaler, a deliberate choice that allowed it to circulate beyond local territory in the broader Mediterranean and northern Italian trade networks.
1596 falls within a productive phase of Alberico's mint activity at Massa. The Cybo-Malaspina coinage of this period is poorly documented in surviving mint records, making precise die studies difficult.