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Una proposta teorico-metodologica per la definizione di una cronologia delle emissioni di moneta argentea nella Signoria e nel Ducato di Milano (1330-1535)

Autor Alessandro Toffanin
Publicado em Rivista Italiana di Numismatica, Volume CXXVI (2025)
Italian Numismatics Magazine
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On December 12, 1511, Gregorio Stubmer, the representative of the German bankers Jakob Fugger and his nephews, appeared at the Milan Mint, located in S. Mattia alla Moneta, to settle a debt. He requested to be paid in silver, calculated at 6 ducats for 93 imperial soldi per ducat, for each mark of silver, otherwise he would claim expenses and damages. A few years later, in February 1515, agreements were made with Davide da

Terzago to take over the management of the Milan Mint, and the future mint master wrote that he was pleased to produce silver coinage at the value of 93 soldi per gold ducat. The study of proclamations and Milanese documents concerning the coins of the 15th and 16th centuries has highlighted the use of the formula “silver calculated at x soldi per gold florin” to define the quality of the silver coinage. Attempting to make calculations to give concrete meaning to this terminology reveals that a key variable is always missing—specifically, the value of silver equivalent to a gold ducat. Once this missing link is found, it becomes possible to reconstruct with reasonable accuracy the relationship between the valuation of the gold florin or ducat and the theoretical silver content of the accounting coin. By combining this information with knowledge of minting techniques, which led to a reduction in the silver content of the actual coin struck to cover honor and manufacturing costs, it is possible to reconstruct a chronology of the real coinage that dates back to the first Visconti emissions of the 14th century.

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