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Coin replica - Banca Commerciale Italiana 1 Sovrano - Joseph II
| Issuer | Banca Commerciale Italiana |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Weight | 30 g |
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| Obverse lettering | IOSEPH II D G R IMP S A GE HIE HV BO REX LT M SJ |
| Reverse description | The elaborate crowned coat of arms of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty occupies the central field, featuring the quartered escutcheon with the arms of Austria and Lorraine, surrounded by the collars of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Six subsidiary shields of the hereditary territories are arranged around the central arms. The circular Latin legend, running along the beaded border, reads ARCH AVST DVX BVRG LOTH BRAB COM FLAN, with the original date 1786 and the commemorative date MCMXCVI (1996) also present in the legend. |
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Banca Commerciale Italiana issued a series of silver replicas during the 1990s reproducing historic coinage associated with Italian and broader European monetary history. The Sovrano was a gold trade coin of the Habsburg-controlled Lombardo-Venetian territories, and Joseph II's issues from the Milan mint in the 1780s were among the more commercially significant of his reign in northern Italy. This piece is a modern restrike in silver — not a period original — and carries no numismatic value tied to the Joseph II coinage itself.