1 Ducat - Carlo Giuseppe Francesco Tizzone

Desana was among the smallest feudal entities ever granted coinage rights in northern Italy — a county of negligible territory wedged between Vercelli and Novara, whose rulers minted partly to assert noble prerogative and partly because the ducal format was accepted across Lombard trade routes regardless of issuer. Carlo Giuseppe Francesco Tizzone held the county across a thirty-five year span during which the Spanish grip on the Duchy of Milan tightened considerably, making even minor fiefdoms politically useful as buffer clients.

Fr#255 is genuinely scarce. Desana's output was never large, and the county was absorbed into Savoy shortly after this series ended.