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3 Cagliarese - Carlo II
| Issuer | Sardinia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1668-1695 |
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| Value | 3 Cagliaresi (0.01) |
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| Obverse lettering | CAROLVS. II. D. G. R. (Translation: Charles II, by God`s grace, King) |
| Reverse description | A floriated cross with crosslets at the extremities divides the field into four quarters, each containing a small human head in profile facing left. The date appears at the end of the circular Latin legend, which runs along the outer rim within a beaded border. The cross design follows the traditional Aragonese heraldic style common to Spanish-dominated Sardinian coinage. The overall execution is characteristic of the hammered technique, resulting in slightly irregular strike and planchet. |
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Carlo II of Spain ruled Sardinia as an absentee sovereign throughout this period, with the island administered by a series of viceroys while the king himself — chronically ill, cognitively impaired, and the last of the Spanish Habsburgs — never set foot there. The Cagliari mint operated under persistent financial strain, and copper coinage of this type circulated heavily among the island's poor while silver remained scarce in local trade.
MIR 91 lists several die variants across the nearly three-decade span of this issue, and examples struck in the earlier years of the reign tend to show cruder workmanship than later ones.