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10 Quattrini - Louis I of Bourbon
| Issuer | Tuscany, Grand Duchy of |
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| Year | 1801-1802 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#C41 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a classically rendered rectangular altar or sarcophagus in three-quarter perspective, depicted with a stepped cornice and plain sides. The denomination inscription QUATTRINI DIECI is engraved in two lines on the face panel of the altar, set within the recessed field. The design is austere and neoclassical in character, with no additional legend or ornament in the surrounding field. |
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Louis I ruled Tuscany for barely eighteen months. The Kingdom of Etruria — the Napoleonic client state carved from the former Grand Duchy after the Treaty of Lunéville in 1801 — was handed to his Bourbon-Parma line as a diplomatic consolation prize, and Louis died in May 1803 before France found a reason to take it back. His coinage window was narrow enough that this billon issue, struck across just two fiscal years, represents the entirety of his numismatic output for the denomination.