1680, Livorno (Tuscany), Cosimo III de' Medici. Silver Tollero. Key-Date! NGC AU

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1680, Livorno (Tuscany), Cosimo III de' Medici. Silver Tollero. Key-Date! NGC AU
Mint Year: 1680
Mint Place: Livorno
Denomination:  Tallero (Piastre)
Ruler (Duke): Cosimo III de' Medici
State: Livorno (province of Tuscany)
Condition:
Certified and graded by NGC as AU (Details: Cleaned!)
Reference: Davenport 4214, KM-16.2 (
50 in VF!
).
Rare Key-Date!
Weight: ca. 27gm
Diameter: 43mm
Material: Silver
Obverse:
Draped bust of Cosimo III de' Medici right. Date (1680) below, flanked by pellets.
Legend: COSMVS . III . D . G . MAG . DVX . ETRVRIAE . VI * 1680 *
Reverse:
Harbour view of Livorno with sailboats, lighthouse in foreground and city view in background.
Legend: * ET PATET ET FAVET
The Medici family, one of the leading families in Europe for over four hundred years, ends with Giovanni Gaston. He had no heirs and was unable to provide for his succession. Thus, in 1738, the Grand Duchy of Florence becomes attached to the House of Austria.
The
Province of Livorno
or
Leghorn
(Italian:
Provincia di Livorno
) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. It includes several islands of the Tuscan Archipelago, including Elba and Capraia. Its capital is the city of Livorno.
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Cosimo III de' Medici
(14 August 1642 – 31 October 1723) was the penultimate Grand Duke of Tuscany. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II.   Cosimo's 53-year long reign, the longest in Tuscan history, was marked   by a series of ultra-reactionary laws which regulated prostitution and   banned May celebrations. His reign also witnessed Tuscany's   deterioration to previously unknown economic lows. He was succeeded by   his elder surviving son, Gian Gastone, when he died, in 1723.
He married Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, a cousin of Louis XIV. It was a marriage fraught with tribulation. Marguerite Louise eventually abandoned Tuscany for the Convent of Montmartre. Together, they had 3 children: Ferdinando in 1663, Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine, in 1667, and Gian Gastone, the last Medicean ruler of Tuscany, in 1671.
In later life, he attempted to have Anna Maria Luisa recognised as the universal heiress of Tuscany, but Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor,   would not allow it because Florence was nominally an imperial fief, and   he felt he alone could alter the Tuscan laws of succession. All   Cosimo's efforts to salvage the plan floundered, and in 1737, upon his   younger son's death, Tuscany passed to the House of Lorraine.
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