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Sesino - Alfonso II
| Issuer | County of Novellara and Bagnolo (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1644-1678 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (1644-1678) |
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Alfonso II Gonzaga ruled Novellara and Bagnolo as a minor imperial fief of negligible strategic weight, yet the counts maintained the privilege of coinage throughout the seventeenth century — a right jealously guarded even as the county's actual political influence contracted. The sesino was the workhorse denomination of small northern Italian fiefs, circulating locally in a region already saturated with competing small copper from Mantua, Reggio, and Mirandola.
MIR EM#881 places this squarely among the least-documented Gonzaga collateral issues. Alfonso II's reign of over three decades accounts for the relative frequency with which these turn up, though fine survivors are genuinely scarce.