10 Quattrini - Ferdinando III

Ferdinando III's second tenure over Tuscany was interrupted almost immediately — Napoleon's reorganization of the Italian peninsula forced him out of Florence in 1799, and these billon quattrini were struck in the narrow window before French pressure made his position untenable again. By 1801 he had been formally displaced, eventually receiving Salzburg as cold consolation. The quattrino denomination itself was ancient Florentine small change, surviving into the early nineteenth century largely through institutional inertia rather than any practical monetary reform.