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1 Ducato - Guglielmo VIII Palaeologo
| Issuer | March of Montferrat (Montferrat, Italian States) |
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| Year | 1464-1483 |
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| Reference(s) | CNI II#1 |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
| Obverse lettering | GVLIERMVS MARChIO MO G V |
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Guglielmo VIII ruled Montferrat as a marquis caught between competing Italian powers — the Sforza of Milan, Savoy, and the ambitions of the Gonzaga — navigating those pressures through strategic marriage alliances rather than military force. His gold ducato coinage was struck in close imitation of the Venetian ducat standard, a deliberate economic choice that made Montferrat's currency acceptable in the broader northern Italian trade network without the marquessate having anything like Venice's commercial reach.
CNI II#1 places this as the primary type for his reign. The Palaeologus dynasty had held Montferrat since 1305, a Byzantine imperial lineage stranded in the Piedmontese foothills by geopolitical accident.