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Zecchino - Antonio Teodoro Trivulzio
| Issuer | Retegno (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1676 |
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| Diameter | 23 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | THEOD TRIVL PRINC S R I |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Antonio Teodoro Trivulzio acquired the lordship of Retegno — a tiny fiefdom in the Lombard plain southeast of Milan — and with it the rare privilege of coinage rights, a power the Spanish Crown was increasingly reluctant to confirm to minor Italian nobles by the late seventeenth century. The Trivulzio family had wielded considerable influence in Milan since the condottiere Gian Giacomo Trivulzio led the French conquest of the duchy in 1499, but by Antonio Teodoro's time that clout was largely ceremonial.
Retegno's zecchino output was extremely limited, minted almost certainly for prestige rather than circulation. MIR Lombardia records only this single type for the lordship.