`1 Tallero del leone` - Anonymous

Frinco was a minor lordship in Monferrato, and the leone tallero was almost certainly struck as a trade coin designed to compete in Mediterranean and Levantine commerce — imitating the Dutch leeuwendaalder that had become widely trusted in Ottoman markets. Small Italian states occasionally seized on this arbitrage opportunity, minting to a recognized type rather than an indigenous standard precisely because foreign merchants would accept the format without question. The Lordship of Frinco issued virtually nothing else of numismatic record, making KM#1 both the opening and closing entry for this authority.