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1 Groschen - Louis I
| Issuer | Duchy of Savoy (Savoy (France), French States) |
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| Year | 1440-1465 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen (1⁄20) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A full-length frontal figure of Saint Maurice, patron saint of the House of Savoy, standing erect in the field and holding a banner or standard in his right hand, rendered in the Gothic style characteristic of mid-fifteenth-century hammered coinage. The saint is depicted in military attire within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding circular legend reads S mAVRICIVS D THEOBIE, identifying the saint and referencing the Thebaic Legion. |
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Louis I ruled Savoy from 1440 until his death in 1465, presiding over a duchy caught between the competing gravitational pulls of France, the Swiss Confederacy, and the Duchy of Milan. His reign saw Savoy's political alignment shift repeatedly, and the coinage reflects a duchy minting on its own terms — the groschen denomination itself signals the persistent German monetary influence in Savoyard currency even as the territory straddled Latin and Germanic Europe.
The MIR CS#160 reference places this firmly within the Corpus of Savoyard coinage, a series notoriously difficult to date within reign spans given the absence of regnal year marking on most issues.