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10 Zecchini - Antonio Teodoro Trivulzio
| Issuer | Retegno |
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| Year | 1676 |
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| Currency | Filippo |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Antonio Teodoro Trivulzio facing right, with long flowing curly hair and lace collar, set within a plain inner circle. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy, reading partially ANT·THEOD·TRIVVLT·S·R·I·ET·VAL·MBO·P. The portrait is rendered in high relief in the Baroque manner typical of late 17th-century Italian coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | ANT·THEOD·TRIVVLT·S·R·I·ET·VAL·MBO·P |
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Retegno was a tiny feudal lordship in the Duchy of Milan, and its coinage rights were exercised almost exclusively for prestige rather than genuine commercial circulation. The Trivulzio family — one of the great Milanese dynasties — used high-denomination gold multiples like this ten-zecchini piece as political currency in the most literal sense: gifts to patrons, payments to allies, demonstrations of dynastic standing to the Spanish Habsburg court that controlled the Duchy.
Fr#985a distinguishes this from the more frequently encountered 985 proper, a distinction that collapses for most collectors until they examine the die axis and minor legend spacing firsthand.