1 Scudo d`oro - Antonio Maria Tizzone

Desana was among the smallest feudal territories in the Monferrato region — a pocket county whose lords punched well above their weight in coin production. The Tizzoni family held minting rights as imperial fiefs under the Habsburgs, a privilege they exploited aggressively in the early seventeenth century, striking gold scudi that circulated far beyond their diminutive domain. Antonio Maria Tizzone's issues from this period are now extremely rare survivors, the output of a mint that ceased to function entirely when Spanish pressure on the smaller Lombard lordships intensified through the 1630s.