Italy 1810-V centesimo
This specimen was lot 3506 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $101.15. The catalog description[1] noted, "NAPOLEONIC KINGDOM: Napoleon I, 1804-1814, AE centesimo, 1810-V (1/0 overdate), lustrous with traces of red, PCGS graded MS63 RB." The issues of the Napoleonic kingdom of Italy were meant to match the French franc Germinal, altho no copper was being minted in France at this time. This type was struck at Bologna (C1.1 struck 1807-12), Milan (C1.2, struck 1807-13) and Venice (C1.3, struck 1807-13). Gigante divides the Milan issues into two types, the second type being struck 1811-13.
Recorded mintage: 267,339, a scarce date.
Specification: copper, 19.5 mm diameter, 2.1 g, plain edge.
Catalog reference: KM C1.3, Mont-59.
- Gigante, Fabio, Gigante 2016: Catalogo Nazionale delle Monete Italiano Dal '700 All'Euro, 24a ed. Varese, Italy, 2015.
- Montenegro, Eupremio, Montenegro 2015: Manuale del Collezionista di Monete Italiane, 30 ed., Torino, Italy: Montenegro s.a.s., 2014.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [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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