W. C a r e w H a z l i t t Coinage of the European Continent

Descriptive Outline of the Coinages of Europe 449
Belmont the valley of Musolcino with the castle of Musocco
in the Swiss canton of Graubiinten. At Musocco he established
a mint. In 1493 he acquired by purchase the
feudal rights of the valleys of Rheinwald and Stufsanvien.
Political circumstances led him to transfer his mint to Musso ;
and in 1529 the castle of Musocco was destroyed by an
insurrection.
Gio. Francesco Trivulzio, his son, again shifted
the seat of coinage to Roveredo, and this latter place retained
the privilege
till the seventeenth century, when Teodoro Trivulzio
finally arranged to strike his money at Retegno. A
scudo and a triple scudo of 1676 describe him as a Prince
of the Holy Roman Empire and the Valleys of Musolcino,
tenth Count of Misocco (or Musocco), and fourteenth Baron
of Retegno, etc.
The numismatic chronicle of Pesaro is confined to the
period between the domination of the Malatesta and Sforza
families and the closure of the mint in 1622. The
Pesaro.
Malatesta dynasty held the lordship from about the
middle of the fourteenth to the middle of the fifteenth century,
the Sforza from that time to 1512, and the Dukes of Urbino
during the remainder of the term, the mint being occasionally
employed by others, as Cesare Borgia, 1500-3, and Leo X.,
1519-21. Giovanni Sforza, the last of that line, shared the
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