Massa di Lunigiana 1664 8 bolognini KM-39
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This specimen was lot 34964 in Ponterio sale 177 (Chicago, August 2013), where it sold for $235. The catalog description[1] noted, "ITALY. Massa Di Lunigiano. Luigino of 8 Bolognini, 1664. Alberico II Cybo Malaspina (1662-90). Toned. From the Demarete Collection." Modena lies between Parma and Ferrara, and the town of Massa lies in the south of the duchy, near Carrara. Eight bolognini made a luigino, a denomination equal to the French twelfth écu which was briefly popular in the seventeenth century for the Levant trade.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 2.27 g, silver.
Catalog reference: cf.Rossi-2202-4, KM 39.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio sale 177: The August 2013 Chicago ANA Auction, World Coins, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers, LLC, 2013.
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