2 Doppie - Annibale Degli Ippoliti

Gazoldo degli Ippoliti was among the smallest feudal lordships in the Lombard plain — a village jurisdiction granted to the Ippoliti family by the Gonzaga of Mantua, to whom they remained vassals throughout their brief minting history. Annibale degli Ippoliti received imperial minting rights in the 1650s, and the output was modest by any measure: the entire coinage of the marquisate across all denominations is believed to number in the dozens of surviving pieces. This 2 Doppie is the prestige issue of that tiny output.

MIR LOM 322 records it as among the rarest Lombard gold of the seventeenth century.