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1 Zecchino - Maria Theresa
| Issuer | Duchy of Milan (Milan, Italian States) |
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| Year | 1777 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Draped and laureate bust of Empress Maria Theresa facing right, her hair elaborately dressed and adorned with a laurel wreath, with flowing robes secured at the shoulder. The effigy is rendered in high relief in the baroque tradition. A Latin legend encircles the bust along the periphery of the field, abbreviating her full imperial and royal titles. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Milan's zecchino coinage under Maria Theresa was a deliberate political act as much as a monetary one. When Habsburg administration tightened its grip on Lombardy through the Gubernium reforms of the 1750s and 60s, maintaining a prestigious gold issue in the Venetian zecchino tradition signaled continuity of commercial credibility to the merchants who actually used it — particularly those trading across the Po Valley into the Serenissima's own territory.
KM#191 represents one of the later Milan strikes before Joseph II's rationalizing monetary reforms swept away much of the Italian Habsburg coinage infrastructure following Maria Theresa's death in 1780.