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Quattrino
| Issuer | Masegra (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1600-1700 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Plain field bearing a three-line Latin inscription denoting the denomination, reading '1 / QVATRI / NO', indicating a value of one Quattrino. The numeral '1' is positioned at the top of the field, with the denomination name split across the two lower lines. The lettering is boldly raised and simply rendered, consistent with the hammered technique and the modest copper coinage of minor Italian lordships in the seventeenth century. A plain raised rim encircles the legend. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Masegra was a tiny seigneury in the Valtellina, the Alpine valley corridor that spent much of the seventeenth century as a contested buffer between Spanish Milan and the Graubünden cantons of Switzerland. The local Beccaria family held minting rights largely as a feudal formality — their output was minimal, and the quattrino circulated in a region where Spanish reales and Swiss currency competed for everyday commerce.
KM#2 designation suggests this is among only a handful of recorded types from this lordship, and surviving examples are rare by any measure.