Fosdinovo 1669 luigino
This specimen was lot 1723 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "FOSDINOVO: Maria Maddalena Centurioni Malaspina, 1667-1669, AR luigino, 1669, a few small corrosion spots, lightly toned, EF, R4 (MIR)." Fosdinovo is a tiny hamlet now in the province of Massa di Carrara in the northwest corner of Tuscany. In the seventeenth century, it was a semi-independent marquisate wedged between Genoa and Modena and ruled by the Malaspina family. This coin was struck in imitation of the French twelfth écu, then having a brief vogue in the Levantine trade.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 2.29 g, 0.917 fine silver.
Catalog reference: CNI-30/36, MIR-51/2var, KM unlisted.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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