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1 Doppia - Francesco Filiberto Ferrero-Fieschi
| Issuer | Marquessate of Masserano (Masserano, Italian States) |
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| Year | 1594 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Francesco Filiberto Ferrero-Fieschi ruled Masserano as a tiny imperial fief in Piedmont, holding minting rights that were perpetually contested by Savoy. The Ferrero-Fieschi family had acquired these rights through a tangle of inheritance and imperial grant, and the duchy exercised them aggressively — partly as a demonstration of sovereign standing against Savoyard encroachment. Gold issues like this doppia were prestige objects as much as currency, struck in quantities small enough that survival of any example is genuinely notable.