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1/4 Scudo - Giulio Spinola
| Issuer | Marquisate of Arquata |
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| Year | 1681 |
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| Value | 1/4 Scudo |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Arquata del Bosco was a tiny feudal holding in the Ligurian Apennines, granted to the Spinola family — one of Genoa's great banking dynasties — as an imperial fief under Hapsburg patronage. The right to strike coin was a jealously guarded privilege of that status, and the Spinola exercised it sparingly. Giulio Spinola's issues from the 1680s represent the marquisate's only substantive coinage output, produced in negligible quantities for a territory whose political significance was largely ceremonial by that point.