1 Thaler - Antonio Tolomeo Trivulzio Gallio

Retegno was a tiny imperial fief in Lombardy whose coinage rights were held by the Trivulzio Gallio family under a grant from the Holy Roman Empire. The right to strike thalers was jealously guarded and rarely exercised — issues from Retegno are extraordinarily scarce, produced in small quantities that appear to have served prestige and feudal obligation more than any commercial function.

Antonio Tolomeo Trivulzio Gallio held the title of Prince of Retegno. This 1726 issue is among the last gasps of autonomous coinage from Italy's smallest imperial fiefs before Habsburg administrative consolidation effectively ended such privileges.