1 Lira - Emanuele Filiberto

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.