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Santa croce de 25 bolognini
| Issuer | Republic of Lucca |
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| Year | 1734-1756 |
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| Currency | Lira (?-1800, 1826-1847) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1734 - - 1735 - - 1742 - - 1748 - - 1756 - - |
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Lucca's republican coinage survived well into the eighteenth century as a deliberate political statement — the city-state maintained its independence from both the Medici-dominated Tuscany and imperial interference longer than virtually any comparable Italian commune. The Santa Croce issues of this period draw their name from the city's most venerated relic, the Volto Santo crucifix, which had anchored Lucca's civic and religious identity since the medieval period and remained central to its monetary iconography across centuries of otherwise changing politics.
MIR 232/2 distinguishes this variety within a closely related sequence of bolognini issues from the same decades.