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1 Tari - Carlo V
| Issuer | Kingdom of Naples |
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| Year | 1528-1548 |
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| Currency | Piastra (1266-1812) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned and armored bust of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Carlo V) facing right, wearing a ruffled collar and imperial crown. The effigy is rendered in a bold, somewhat stylized relief characteristic of Neapolitan hammered coinage of the early sixteenth century. The circular legend surrounding the bust reads CAROLVS V ROM IMP, identifying the ruler as Emperor of Rome. A mint mark appears in the field below the bust. The portrait conveys regal authority with careful attention to the crown and collar detail. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Carlo V — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor — never set foot in the Naples mint to oversee his coinage, but the political weight behind these issues was enormous. Naples had been a Spanish possession since 1504, and the tari denominations struck under his name funded the relentless campaign infrastructure of an empire simultaneously fighting the Ottomans in the Mediterranean and the Lutherans in northern Europe. The twenty-year span of this type reflects not consistency but administrative inertia — distant viceroys managed production with varying degrees of oversight.
The MIR 138 attribution covers several die marriages within the type, and specimens differ enough in execution that careful comparison against Magliocca's corpus rewards the effort.