1 Trillina - Massimiliano Sforza MA

Massimiliano Sforza's tenure as Duke of Milan was never truly his own — installed in 1512 by Swiss mercenary forces after the French were expelled, he governed as a dependent of the cantons that had put him there, paying for their protection with territorial concessions and revenue he could barely spare. The trillina circulated through this fractured administration, a minor denomination grinding through a duchy that changed hands three times in a single generation. Crippa's attribution places this among a small range of dies, all sharing the compressed flan characteristics typical of the Milan billon output under Sforza's brief and constrained rule.