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1/4 Groschen - Charles III 6th type
| Issuer | Duchy of Savoy |
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| Year | 1504-1553 |
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| Currency | Livre |
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| Reverse description | A trefoil cross occupies the central field, its arms extending to a dotted inner circle, with the four quadrants left plain. The peripheral legend in Gothic Latin lettering, contained between two concentric lines, records the mint of Aosta and the name of the mintmaster Nicola Vialard. The flan is irregularly shaped and the strike characteristic of hammered billon coinage of the Savoyard duchy in the early sixteenth century. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Charles III ruled Savoy for nearly five decades but spent much of that reign as a political hostage to the great powers pressing on his borders — France and the Habsburgs carved through his territory repeatedly, and by 1536 Francis I had occupied most of the duchy outright, leaving Charles with little more than Piedmont under nominal control. Coins continued to be struck in his name throughout the occupation, a bureaucratic persistence that makes precise dating within the long 1504–1553 span genuinely difficult.
The "6th type" designation in Biaggi reflects the extensive die and design evolution across Charles's reign — MIR 412 distinguishes this emission from at least five prior variants.