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| Emittent | Mesocco, Lordship of |
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| Jahr | 1487-1518 |
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| Material | Gold |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Within a finely beaded inner circle, a shield bearing three crosses is centrally displayed, flanked on either side by the initials I·I (for Johann Jakob), each letter accompanied by three small crescents. The composition is rendered in a bold, late-medieval hammered style with strong relief. The design elements are symmetrically arranged within the circular field, conveying both the lordly authority and the religious devotion characteristic of Renaissance Italian coinage. |
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| Reversbeschreibung | A prominent cross fleury occupies the central field, its terminals expanding into stylized fleur-de-lis motifs, set within a double beaded circle. The surrounding legend is inscribed in Gothic-influenced Latin capitals between the inner and outer borders. The bold, hammered relief of the cross fleury is characteristic of late 15th- to early 16th-century northern Italian coinage, and the double circle framing lends the design a formal, heraldic quality. |
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Johann Jakob Trivulzio acquired the lordship of Mesocco in the Graubünden in 1487 after years of mercenary service — most notably as a condottiere who would later deliver Milan to the French under Louis XII in 1499. The right to strike coinage came with the territory, and this scudo belongs to that window between his acquisition of Mesocco and his death in 1518, during which he operated simultaneously as an imperial lord and a French marshal.
Mesocco's mint output was small and politically anomalous — a minor Alpine lordship producing gold coinage modeled on the Milanese solar scudo, reflecting Trivulzio's deep ties to the duchy rather than to Swiss confederal monetary norms.