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Its exchange rate of 27 Milanese lire = 4.5 Milanese scudi = 20.723 Italian lire (each of 4.5 g fine silver) implied a fine silver content of 20.723 g for the scudo. [1] From 1814 to 1866, however, this new currency was supplanted by the Lombardo-Venetian lira of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was based on the Austrian Conventionsthaler.
The scudo (pl. scudi) was the name for a number of coins used in various states in the Italian peninsula until the 19th century. The name, like that of the French écu and the Spanish and Portuguese escudo, was derived from the Latin scutum ("shield"). From the 16th century, [1] the name was used in Italy for large silver coins.
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Scudo milanese. Lo scudo era la moneta del Ducato di Milano fino al 1796. Era suddiviso in 6 lire, ciascuna di 20 soldi oppure in 240 denari. Era pari al Konventionstaler e fu sostituito dalla lira della Repubblica Cispadana, con un valore della lira cispadana pari alla lira milanese. A sua volta la lira cispadana fu sostituita nel 1797 dalla ...
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Background
The fate of the city of Milan was intertwined since the 13th century with that of the Visconti family, who resumed the policy of territorial expansionism inherited from the city's municipality. One of the first Visconti exponents to lead the Lombard city was Ottone Visconti, elected archbishop in 1262 and who defeated the Della Torre family in the Battle of Desioin 1277. In the first half of the following century, his nephews and great-grandsons who came to govern Milan: Matteo I, Galeazzo I,...
Visconti's duchy
The duchy was officially established on 11 May 1395, when Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Dominus Generalis of Milan, obtained the title of Duke of Milan by means of a diploma signed in Prague by Wenceslaus of Bohemia. The nomination was ratified and celebrated in Milan on 5 September 1395. Gian Galeazzo Visconti also obtained the license to quarter the Visconti's biscionewith the imperial eagle in the new ducal flag. The duchy, as defined in the diploma of 1395, included the territory surroundin...
Ambrosian Republic
When the last Visconti duke, Filippo Maria, died in 1447 without a male heir, the Milanese declared the so-called Golden Ambrosian Republic, which soon faced revolts and attacks from its neighbors. In 1450 mercenary captain Francesco Sforza, having previously married Filippo Maria Visconti's illegitimate daughter Bianca Maria, conquered the city and restored the duchy, founding the House of Sforza.
Under the Spanish viceroys from 1535, Milan became one of the contributors to the Spanish king's army. At the time Lombardy had the most developed manufacturing and commercial economy anywhere in the world, making it a valuable tool for the Spanish military: an armory of paramount strategic importance.In addition to resources, Milan also provided s...
After the defeat of Napoleon, based on the decisions of the Congress of Vienna on 9 June 1815, the Duchy of Milan was not restored. The duchy instead became part of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, a constituent of the Austrian Empire and with the Emperor of Austria as its king. This kingdom ceased to exist when the remaining portion of it was anne...
Coat of arms1395–1535 (Under the Visconti and Sforza dynasties)1580–1700 (Under Spanish Habsburgs)1707–1796 (Under Austrian Habsburgs)Black, Jane (2009). Absolutism in Renaissance Milan. Plenitude of power under the Visconti and the Sforza 1329–1535. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199565290.Bueno de Mesquita, Daniel Meredith (1941). Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (1351–1402): a study in the political career of an Italian despot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978052...Chamberlin, E. R. (1965). The Count of Virtue, Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. Retrieved 22 May 2023.AV Escudo (24 mm, 3.38 g, 9 h). Seville mint. The escudo ( Portuguese: 'shield') is a unit of currency which is used in Cape Verde, and which has been used by Portugal, Spain and their colonies. [1] The original coin was worth 16 silver reais. The Cape Verdean escudo is, and the Portuguese escudo was, subdivided into 100 centavos.
Scudo may refer to: Currency. Bolivian scudo; Italian scudo; Lombardy-Venetia scudo; Maltese scudo; Milanese scudo; Papal States scudo; Piedmont scudo; Sardinian scudo; Other. Fiat Scudo, a medium-sized van
In 1816, the Lombardy-Venetia scudo was introduced, also equal to the Conventionsthaler. Coins. In the late 18th century, silver coins circulated in denominations of 5 soldi, ½, 1 and 1½ lire, ½ and 1 scudo. Gold coins were also struck in denominations of 1 zecchino, ½ and 1 sovrano, and 1 doppia. The Cispadane Republic issued gold 20 lire ...
