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220px, Cavallo of Ferdinand I of Naples.
The cavallo was a copper coin of southern
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
in the Renaissance. It was minted for the first time by King
Ferdinand I of Naples in 1472. It gained its name from the figure of a horse on the reverse.
The name later was used for coins of the same values but with different types such as that minted by
Charles VIII of France at Naples in 1494. As its value decreased, the cavallo was abolished in 1498 and replaced with the doppio cavallo ("Double Cavallo"), also known as sestino, by
Frederick I of Naples.
The cavallo was mint again shortly under
Philip IV of Spain
Philip IV ( es, Felipe, pt, Filipe; 8 April 160517 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: ''Rey Planeta''), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640. Philip is remembered ...
(the
Kingdom of Naples at the time was ruled by Spain) in 1626. Multiples (2, 3, 4, 6 and 9 ''cavalli'') were minted until
Ferdinand IV.
The last coin of three ''cavalli'' was minted in 1804, being replaced by the
tornese
The tornesel, tornesol, or was a silver coin of Europe in the Late Middle Ages and the early modern period, early modern era. It took its name from the ', the of Tours. Marco Polo referred to the tornesel in recounts of his travels to East Asia ...
, equal to 6 ''cavalli''.
Coins of Italy
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