1 Scudo d'Oro - Guglielmo Gonzaga

Guglielmo Gonzaga ruled Mantua for nearly four decades, and his gold scudo coinage reflects the duchy's sustained engagement with the broader Italian monetary system of the sixteenth century — specifically the widespread adoption of the scudo d'oro al sole as a trade denomination following French royal precedent. Mantua, a small but culturally outsized state, used coinage partly to project equivalence with larger powers.

The MIR 505 attribution places this among the better-documented Gonzaga types, though die variation across a 37-year span is considerable and frequently undercatalogued by dealers.