Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Coin replica - Banca Commerciale Italiana Francis II Sforza
| Issuer | Banca Commerciale Italiana |
|---|---|
| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Central quartered shield bearing the arms of the Sforza duchy: the Visconti biscione (serpent devouring a child) and the imperial eagle alternating in the four quarters, rendered in high relief. The shield is surmounted by a ducal crown flanked by a laurel branch to the left and a palm frond to the right. To either side of the shield appear the abbreviations DVX and MLI (Mediolani). Below the shield the legend SECONDVS is distributed across the lower field, flanked by the Sforza devices of fire-buckets and tinder-strikers. Above the crown the initials S A appear, and in the exergue the date MCMXC (1990) is engraved alongside the .925 silver fineness mark. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Banca Commerciale Italiana issued a series of silver replicas in the early 1990s reproducing coinage associated with the great Milanese banking and mercantile families — this piece referencing Francesco II Sforza, the last Sforza Duke of Milan, whose reign ended in 1535 when the duchy reverted to Habsburg control under Charles V following his death without an heir. BCI, itself founded in Milan in 1894 with heavy German and Austrian capital, had a particular institutional interest in projecting continuity with northern Italian financial history.