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3 Scudi - Ercole III
| Issuer | Modena and Reggio, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1782 |
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| Composition | Silver (.910) |
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| Obverse lettering | HERCVLES·III·D.G MVTREG·MIR·EC·DVX· |
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| Edge | Milled |
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Ercole III d'Este was the last reigning Duke of Modena, and this coin was struck just over a decade before Austrian forces and then Napoleon dismantled the Este dynasty entirely. The 1782 dating places it in a window of relative stability before the upheavals of the 1790s — the French invaded in 1796 and Ercole fled, dying in exile in Treviso in 1803 with no male heir to inherit a duchy that no longer existed.
The MIR 857 attribution reflects limited die variety documentation for this type; C#19.1 acknowledges only a single primary variety for the date.