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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bardolph, post: 26539321, member: 96174&quot;]M. D. ETR = Magnus Ducatus Etruriae.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Grand Duchy of Etruria&quot; was a sovereign state which existed from 1569 up until 1859, with a break between 1801 and 1815 when Napoleon Bonaparte created the Kingdom of Etruria for Ludovico Filiberto, son of the Duke of Parma. Based in Florence, this Duchy beame part of&nbsp; the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in, I think, the 18th Century.</p><p><br /></p><p>The grand duke of Etruria had <i>ius cudendae monetae,</i> the legal right to strike coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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