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3 Cagliaresi - Filippo IV
| Issuer | Sardinia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1621-1665 |
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| Value | 3 Cagliaresi (0.01) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned bust of Philip IV facing left, with three pellets positioned behind the effigy in the field. The portrait is rendered in a simple, low-relief style characteristic of hammered billon coinage of the period. The peripheral Latin legend reads REX PHILIPPVS, identifying the monarch. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Cagliarese was Sardinia's smallest billon denomination under Spanish rule, issued under Filippo IV (Philip IV of Spain) across a reign that encompassed the Thirty Years' War, chronic Castilian fiscal exhaustion, and repeated debasements across the Crown's scattered mints. Sardinian coinage of this period operated largely outside the peninsula's monetary mainstream — the island's low-value billon issues circulated in a near-closed economy, rarely moving beyond local Sardinian markets.
CNI II records three die varieties for this type, nos. 26–28, distinguishable primarily by minor legend differences.