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1 Cornuto - Gabriele
| Issuer | Saluzzo, Marquisate of |
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| Year | 1537-1548 |
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| Value | 1 Cornuto |
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| Reverse description | Saint Constance depicted as an armored equestrian figure, riding to the right on a prancing horse, holding a long heraldic banner (vessillo) in his raised right hand. The saint is rendered in a bold, somewhat archaic relief characteristic of mid-sixteenth-century Italian hammered silver coinage. The Latin legend surrounds the central device, separated by pellet stops, and runs along the inner rim of the beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | : S ANCTVS : CONSTANTI : |
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Gabriele of Saluzzo ruled as marquis from 1537 until his death in 1548, a period of intense pressure on the small Piedmontese marquisate caught between French and Savoyard ambitions. Saluzzo had been under French protection since 1504, and the coins struck under Gabriele reflect a domain functioning with nominal autonomy while effectively operating as a French client state.
The cornuto denomination itself was peculiar to Saluzzo and a handful of neighboring Piedmontese issuers — a local accounting unit that never achieved wider regional circulation. CNI II records only a small number of die variants for this type.