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6 Lire - Ferdinando di Borbone
| Issuer | Duchy of Parma and Piacenza |
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| Year | 1795-1796 |
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| Reference(s) | C#9, MIR#1073, KM#9 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears the denomination inscription LIRE SEI DI PARMA arranged in four lines, with the date 1796 below, all enclosed within a wreath of laurel and olive branches tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The mintmaster's initials D·G appear at the lower left and right of the wreath knot, identifying the official responsible for coinage. The overall design is restrained and heraldic in character, consistent with late 18th-century Italian ducal coinage. A dentilated border frames the entire reverse. |
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Ferdinando di Borbone ruled Parma as a largely ineffectual duke under heavy Austrian influence, but the final years of his reign were overtaken by events entirely beyond his control. French Revolutionary armies crossed into northern Italy in 1796, and Napoleon's Italian campaign rendered most of the small Po Valley duchies politically obsolete almost overnight. Ferdinando died in October 1802 before formal annexation, but Parma had been effectively a French satellite for years by then. This issue, struck in the last window before that collapse, had a circulation life measured in months rather than years.