ITALY-Parma Medal 1818 Marie Louise of Austria. Taro River Bridge. NGC MS 63 BN

Certification details

Certification number: 8590957-006

Grade: MS 63 BN

NGC collectible ID: 244453

Nominal value: BRONZE

Mint Mark: ITALY

Variety: BRAMSEN-1811 PARMA ; TARO RIVER BRIDGE

Year: 1818-DATED

1818, Parma, Marie Louise of Austria. Taro River Bridge. Bronze Medal. MS-63 BN!


Mint Year: 1818
Reference: Bramsen 330.
Mint Place: Milan (Italy)
Medallist: Giovanni Antonio Santarelli
Condition: Certified and graded by NGC as MS-63 BN!
Denomination: Medal - Marie Louise of Austria / Taro River Bridge.
Material: Bronze
Diameter: 41mm
Weight: 38gm


Obverse: Diademed bust of Marie Louise of Austria as Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla left.
Legend: M . LVDOV . ARCH . AVSTR . D . G . PARM . PLAC . ET . VAST . DVX . / SANTARELLI . F .

Reverse: Panoramic view of the Taro River, with the newly built Bridge and rural landscape with mountains in background and a tree on a rock in foreground to left.
Legend: TARO . FIRMIVS / DENIQVE . REPRESSO / M . DCCC . XVIII .



Commissioned by Marie Louise in 1816 and completed around 1821, the nearly 600-meter-long "Taro River Bridge" was mad of stone and replaced centuries of fragile wooden and temporary crossings along the Via Aemilia near Parma.



The Duchy of Parma was created in 1545 from that part of the Duchy of Milan south of the Po River, as a fief for Pope Paul III's illegitimate son, Pier Luigi Farnese, centered on the city of Parma. In 1556, the second Duke, Ottavio Farnese, was given the city of Piacenza, becoming thus also Duke of Piacenza, and so the state was thereafter properly known as the Duchies of Parma and Piacenza. In 1808 the duchies were annexed to France, by Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1814, the they were restored under his Habsburg wife, Marie Louise, who was to rule them for her lifetime. After Marie Louise's death in 1847, the Duchy was restored to the Bourbon-Parma line, which had been ruling the tiny Duchy of Lucca. The duchies of Parma and Piacenza joined with the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Duchy of Modena to form the puppet United Provinces of Central Italy in December 1859, and were annexed to the Kingdom of Sardinia in March 1860. The House of Bourbon continues to claim the title of duke of Parma to this day. Carlos-Hugo (Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne in the 1970s) has held the title since 1977.

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