1 Ducato - Charles Emmanuel I the Great

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.