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1 Ducato - Charles Emmanuel I the Great
| Issuer | Savoy, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1601-1603 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The Virgin Mary is depicted seated facing, nimbed and draped, cradling the Christ Child on her lap in a hieratic devotional composition. The figures are rendered in high relief with flowing robes, the Madonna shown in a three-quarter frontal pose. The Latin legend is disposed around the type within a beaded inner border, with small rosette stops separating the words. |
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| Reverse lettering | PAX. IN. VIRT. TVA. |
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Charles Emmanuel I spent the 1590s in a disastrous series of campaigns attempting to seize the Marquisate of Saluzzo from France, a territorial obsession that had consumed Savoyard foreign policy for decades. The 1601 Treaty of Lyon finally resolved the dispute — but not in his favor. France retained Saluzzo, and Savoy received the territories of Bresse, Bugey, and Gex as compensation, fundamentally reshaping the duchy's geographic footprint westward into French-speaking lands.
This ducato was struck across the three years immediately following that settlement, a period of monetary reorganization as the duchy absorbed its new territories. MIR 587 documents this as a short-lived type.