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Soldino - Johann Franz Trivulzio
| Issuer | Lordship of Mesocco |
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| Year | 1518-1549 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays an ornate cross pattée with fleurs-de-lis at each terminal, set within a beaded inner circle. The four quadrants formed by the cross arms are each filled with heraldic or decorative elements, consistent with late medieval Italian lordship coinage. The partial circumscriptional legend + MAR [...]G . ET . CASTRI . NO . C . M . runs around the outer periphery in Latin capitals, referencing the lord's titles as Marquis and castellan of the relevant territories. The overall workmanship reflects the provincial hammered silver coinage tradition of the Graubünden region in the early sixteenth century. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Johann Franz Trivulzio acquired lordship over Mesocco — a strategically critical valley controlling access between the Swiss Confederation and the Duchy of Milan — through inheritance from the powerful Milanese Trivulzio family, who had seized it from the Sax family in 1480. The Graubünden cantons repeatedly pressured and eventually absorbed the territory in 1549, the terminal date of this issue, when Trivulzio authority was finally extinguished.
The soldino denomination placed this squarely within the northern Italian monetary orbit rather than Swiss, reflecting where Mesocco's economic ties actually ran.