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Medieval Italian States Or Savoy?

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Anyone happens this particulary small coin. It looks Italian (thought Milan first due to the portret) but couldnt find a Milan piece with a flower in the middle of the cross.

Possible Savoy?
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couldnt find a Milan piece with a flower in the middle of the cross


Not a match, but perhaps similar?

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1265647
https://www.deamoneta.com/auctions/view/578/248


Somewhat similar here too, with full flans - not as crude as your's, though, Vince (could yours be a copy of this?):
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3082667
https://numismaticavaresi.bidinside...e-di-pavia-/


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As always, great research, Bob!

I am not seeing that Sforza serpent at the top (only a small cross), but a lot of the legends are missing on that coin. Maybe a variant, or as you say, a copy?

I will try to find time for a dive into CNI Lombardy volume.
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@vince, could you please provide a weight and diameter of this piece? I suspect it might have been cut down.
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Hi Spence, Yes I can. It is 0,44 grams and 11 mm Diameter.
It looks indeed there are similarities. Wauw! You mean a copy like an imitation type based on the milan coin?
Like you have with Sterlings Bob , from Britain which are made here in Flandre and such.
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Ok thanks for the additional information.

The color of your coin is quite dark for it to be silver, but if it is, then based on the diameter and weight being 4 mm and about 0.5 g less than the Pavian Imperiale linked by @bob, I think that he found your coin. However over the years in circulation someone clipped the edge in order to harvest a little bit of the bullion value of the coin. Others of this type available on the interwebs show similar edge shaving.

If your coin is not silver, then I still maintain that @bob got you very close, but just perhaps yours is a smaller denomination and thus made from base metal.
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I think your coin is an imperiale of Francesco Sforza, second period (1450-1464), Pavia mint. The CNI reference is Vol.IV, p.507, #22.

The links posted by BobL show imperiales of the first period (1447-50). The obverse legend seen on all of these is (snake) COMES FRANCISCVS or similar

The imperiale of the second period has an obverse legend that starts with a cross. For this specific type, +.FR.DX.MLI.3C. (I think the 3C is an approximation)
The reverse legend would read +.S.SIRVS.PAPIE.
Both sides have a reeded circle (cerchio rigate) around the central design. There are other variants with different punctuation to the legends, and a solid line circle.

Since we can clearly see the cross, dot and what looks like an F on yours, as well as the reeded circle, I think this is the type.

There is a large weight range reported in CNI, from 0.35 to 0.75 g, which is consistent with yours having lost even as much as 25% of its mass to clipping (which is likely to have been the case to remove the legends almost entirely).

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Last, on composition. CNI has Au, Ar and M for the composition of coins made at Pavia during this period. Yours is listed as M which I think is billon.

This quattrino from Ferrara made at the same time (mid-1400s) is made of billon, and is brown in color, more like copper or bronze (portrait of San Maurelio is similar too ... I guess those sainted bishops all looked alike
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