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3 Scudi - Sebastiano Ferrero
| Issuer | Abbey of Fruttuaria (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1570 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Bearded draped bust of Sebastiano Ferrero facing right, wearing an elaborately decorated ecclesiastical collar with ornamental detailing. The effigy is rendered in fine Renaissance portrait style, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The circumscribed Latin legend reads SEBAST FERR EPS IPPO, with the date 1570 appearing in the lower field below the portrait truncation. |
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| Reverse lettering | ABB S BENIGNI NULLIVS DIOC ET COM |
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Fruttuaria, founded in 1003 by William of Volpiano near what is now San Benigno Canavese in Piedmont, held coining rights as part of its imperial privileges — a grant that was legally contested almost continuously by the Duchy of Savoy throughout the sixteenth century. Sebastiano Ferrero served as commendatory abbot, a lay appointment that had nothing to do with monastic life and everything to do with the political economy of northern Italian ecclesiastical patronage.
The CNI records only a single specimen for this type.