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!
Crazia - Cosimo I
| Issuer | Duchy of Florence |
|---|---|
| Year | 1537-1557 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Fiorino (1115-1532) |
| 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 | Log in to see details |
| 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 | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | •COS •M •R • F •DVX •II • |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| 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 | ND (1537-1557) |
| Additional information |
Cosimo I inherited Florence at seventeen following the assassination of Alessandro de' Medici, and the crazia was among the small-denomination billon issues he reformed as part of consolidating ducal monetary authority in the early years of his reign. The denomination itself — derived from "grazia," a grace — was a workhorse of everyday Florentine commerce, handled by the sort of people who never touched a gold florin.
The MIR FI#136 attribution places this squarely in the pre-1557 emission, before Cosimo's later monetary reorganizations following his military consolidation of Siena.