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1 Doppia - Charles Emmanuel II Siege of Cuneo
| Issuer | Duchy of Savoy (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1641 |
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| Currency | Lira |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cuneo was besieged by French forces under the Prince of Condé in 1641, part of the broader Franco-Spanish conflict playing out across northern Italy during the Thirty Years' War. Savoy, caught perpetually between French and Spanish pressure, authorized emergency siege coinage to maintain pay and commerce within the walls. Charles Emmanuel II was only eleven years old at the time; real authority rested with his mother, Christine of France, who governed as regent and navigated the siege with enough resolve to hold the city.
The KM#2 attribution places this among the rarest documented Savoyard emergency issues of the seventeenth century.