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1 Scudo d'Oro - Filippo V
| Issuer | Sardinia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1701-1705 |
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| Value | 1 Scudo d`Oro (2) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A bold cross with fleur-de-lis (lily) terminals at each arm occupies the central field, contained within a beaded inner circle. The cross arms are elegantly splayed with pronounced floral ends, reflecting the dynastic emblem of the Bourbon royal house. A Latin legend surrounds the design between the beaded circle and the outer rim, reading a devotional or imprecatory motto. A small star appears in the legend field. The style and execution are consistent with hammered gold coinage of early 18th-century Sardinia. |
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Philip V issued this scudo during his earliest years as King of Spain, a reign that began in 1700 only because Louis XIV of France maneuvered his grandson onto the Spanish throne after the childless Charles II died without an heir. The move triggered the War of the Spanish Succession almost immediately, and Sardinia — then a Spanish possession — changed hands to Austria by 1708 under the Treaty of Utrecht's preliminary arrangements.
That brief window of 1701–1705 is exactly why this type exists at all. MIR 93 is among the scarcer Philip V Sardinian gold issues precisely because the Turin mint's output under Spanish authority was interrupted before a full production cycle could establish itself.