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1 Parpagliola - Charles Emmanuel I
| Issuer | Duchy of Savoy |
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| Year | 1584-1587 |
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| Weight | 1.9 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the crowned shield of Savoy — quarterly bearing the cross of Savoy — set within an ornamented inner circle. The shield is surmounted by a ducal crown and enclosed by a plain inner border. The circular Latin legend CAROLVS . EMANVEL. runs along the outer margin, separated from the central device by a beaded or plain border. The coin is struck on an irregular flan characteristic of hammered billon coinage of the late sixteenth century. |
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| Mintage | 1584 *//MG - - 1584 B//FD - Bourg - 1584 C - Chambéry) - 1584 G//BDO - Gex - 1584 G//CD - Gex - ND (1584-1587) G - Gex - 1585 *//MG - - 1585 B//FD - Bourg - 1585 C - Chambéry) - 1585 G//BDO - Gex - 1586 B//ED - Bourg - 1586 B//FD - Bourg - 1586 C - Chambéry) - 1586 G//BDO - Gex - 1587 *//NV - - 1587 C - Chambéry) - 1587 G//IF - Gex - |
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Charles Emmanuel I came to power in 1580 inheriting a duchy financially strained by decades of French occupation and costly reconsolidation. The parpagliola — a small billon denomination rooted in the fractional coinage traditions of northern Italy — served the working population of Piedmont and Savoy during a period when the duke was aggressively reasserting territorial authority, including his 1588 seizure of the marquisate of Saluzzo. The MIR 668 attribution places this issue within a tight four-year window before that campaign redirected ducal resources entirely toward military expenditure.