1 Liard - Delfino Tizzone H, Maltese cross, date reverse

Desana was among the smallest feudal territories in the Po Valley — a county of negligible strategic weight, yet one that jealously exercised its minting rights throughout the sixteenth century. Delfino Tizzone, who held the county from the 1570s, issued coinage in denominations almost comically disproportionate to his political standing. The liard was a fractional billon struck largely for local market transactions, circulating in a region where Spanish Milan and Savoy dominated all meaningful commerce.

The "var" notations against both MB#121 and MIR#506 suggest die differences not fully catalogued — unsurprising given the irregular production conditions of minor Italian feudal mints.