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10 Ducats - Louis XII
| Issuer | Duchy of Milan (Milan, Italian States) |
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| Year | 1500-1513 |
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| Currency | Lira (1155-1515) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MEDIOLANI DVX |
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Louis XII of France seized Milan in 1499 after defeating Ludovico Sforza, whose flight to the Habsburgs left the duchy briefly uncontested. These large multiple-ducat gold pieces — struck across the thirteen years of French occupation — served the immediate political need of an occupying power asserting legitimacy over a wealthy northern Italian state, and their production was likely intermittent rather than systematic. The CNI V#1 reference places this as the primary citation type, but surviving examples are genuinely rare; few institutions hold more than one.
Louis lost Milan definitively in 1512 when the Holy League expelled French forces, ending this coinage abruptly.