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1 Lira - Emanuele Filiberto
| Issuer | Duchy of Savoy |
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| Year | 1562-1573 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears the two-line Latin motto INSTAR / OMNIUM (meaning 'worth all things' or 'equal to all'), enclosed within a wreath of oak branches tied at the base, the leaves rendered in fine relief detail. The design is austere and heraldic in character, with no additional peripheral legend, allowing the motto full visual prominence. The wreath is symmetrically arranged and carefully executed, consistent with the refined die-cutting of Savoyard coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse lettering | INSTAR OMNIVM P |
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Emanuele Filiberto struck this lira following his restoration of Savoyard authority after the catastrophic decades of French and Spanish occupation that had reduced the duchy to a battleground. The 1559 Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis returned him his territories, and he immediately set about consolidating ducal power — monetary reform was part of that program, not an afterthought. He also relocated his capital from Chambéry to Turin in 1563, a geopolitical pivot toward the Italian peninsula that reoriented the duchy's economic relationships entirely.
MIR 506 covers a decade-long emission with known die variation across the series.