1 Scudo d'Oro - Filippo V

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.