Timeline

• Republic of Lucca:
  - Base weight: Luccan pound / 12 ounces / 24 deniers / 24 grains of 334.500 grams
  - Accounting unit: Luccan Lira at 72⁴⁄₅ Luccan grains silver 11 ounces (Lira: 3'229.50mg AG fine).
  - Real coins based on the Luccan Thaler (Scudo) of 7½ Lire.

Timeline

• 30.04.1806
• Princely decree, confirming a French imperial decree of 30.03.1806, on the adoption of the French monetary standard; effective immediately
• 13.05.1806
• Princely ordinance on the import of French coinage for use in Lucca and Piombino
• 28.02.1809
• Rating of pre-Napoleonic coins as 1 Luccan Lira = 0.75 Luccan Franc
• 04.05.1811
• Princely ordinance on the issuance of silver coins of 5 Francs (dated 1805-1808); further silver coins of 1 Franc and subsidiary coins of 5, 3 Cents were produced in 1815

Valuation Regimes

• 1806-1819
• Metallic currency based on circulating gold and silver coins.

Timeline

• ??.08.1818
• Ducal decree on the return to the pre-Napoleonic accounting; effective 01.01.1819
• 1825-1837
• Local coin issuance:
  04.04.1825 and 27.08.1826: Ordinances for the issuance of subsidiary coins
  24.05.1834 and 05.08.1837: Ordinances on the issuance of undervalied silver coins of 2, 1, ½ Lira.
• 26.10.1846
• Ordinance on the rating of Tuscan coins as 1 Tuscan Scudo (of 6²⁄₃ Lire) = 1 Luccan Scudo (of 7½ Lire), therefore 100 Tuscan Lire = 112½ Luccan Lire; confirmed by Tuscan ordinance of 23.12.1847 before annexation.

Valuation Regimes

• 1819-1847
• Metallic currency based on circulating silver coins.