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2 Doppie
| Issuer | Republic of Genoa |
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| Year | 1638-1722 |
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| Currency | Scudo (1528-1797) |
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| Edge | Milled |
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| Mintage | 1638 IBS - - 1639 IBS - - 1640 IBS - - 1641 IBS - - 1650 IBN - - 1651 IAB - - 1652 IAB - - 1653 IAB - - 1654 IAB - - 1655 IAB - - 1658 IAB - - 1659 - - 1661 AB - - 1662 AB - - 1668 ISS - - 1669 ISS - - 1670 ISS - - 1671 ISS - - 1675 ILM - - 1698 ITC - - 1714 FMS - - 1720 FMS - - 1721 FMS - - 1722 FMS - - |
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The Genoese dopp coinage of this period circulated during a century defined less by Genoese commercial dominance — which was already fading — than by the city's role as Europe's premier banking center. Genoese financiers underwrote Spanish imperial debt for generations, and high-denomination gold pieces like this functioned as instruments of credit settlement as much as ordinary exchange. The republic's financial sophistication arguably outlasted its naval and colonial power by a full century.
KM#85 spans an unusually long emission period of over eighty years, suggesting multiple die marriages and probable undocumented sub-varieties across that run.