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1 Doppia - Julius Caesar Gonzaga
| Issuer | Bozzolo (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1593-1609 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | I C PRIN BOZZVLI SACRI Q ROM IMPERII |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Julius Caesar Gonzaga ruled the tiny fief of Bozzolo — a enclave in the Po valley barely the size of a market town — as a virtually autonomous lord despite nominal Gonzaga family ties to the larger Mantuan duchy. The right to strike gold coinage was a jealously guarded privilege, and small lordships like Bozzolo exercised it aggressively, partly as a revenue mechanism and partly as an assertion of political standing that their territory alone could never justify.
CNI IV#4 is among the rarer Bozzolo gold attributions, with surviving examples turning up almost exclusively in northern Italian cabinet collections dispersed in the nineteenth century.