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5 Soldi - Carlo VI
| Issuer | Milan, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1722-1737 |
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| Currency | Scudo (?-1796) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in the field, with a quartered heraldic shield superimposed on the breast. The date is divided at the top of the field, flanking the crown, with the first two digits to the left and the last two to the right. A Latin legend surrounds the design, identifying the emperor as Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. |
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| Obverse lettering | 37·CAROLVS·VI· ·D·G·IMP·ET·C·17 |
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Carlo VI ruled Milan as Holy Roman Emperor following the War of the Spanish Succession, which transferred the Duchy from Spanish to Austrian Hapsburg control in 1706. The billon coinage of this period reflects a deliberate administrative normalization — Vienna was standardizing monetary output across its Italian territories, and the Milan mint was brought under tighter imperial oversight than it had experienced under Spanish governance. The N&V#440 reference places this squarely within Negrini and Varesi's documentation of Lombard coinage, the authoritative regional catalog for this material.