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Popolino - In name of Charles IV
| Issuer | Republic of Lucca (Lucca, Italian States) |
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| Year | 1369-1399 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Mintage | ND (1369-1399) |
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Lucca's medieval coinage operated under a peculiar legal fiction that persisted for centuries: the city struck coins in the name of the Holy Roman Emperor despite functioning as a fully self-governing commune. Charles IV formalized Lucca's imperial privileges in 1369, and this issue belongs to that arrangement — the emperor's name on a coin he never ordered, minted by a republic that jealously guarded its own autonomy. The billon popolino was the workhorse of local small commerce, circulating alongside heavier Florentine and Genoese issues in a market where fractional silver was perpetually scarce.