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1 Scudo - Giovanni Battista di Savoia Racconigi Abate
| Issuer | Abbey of Fruttuaria (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1581 |
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| Diameter | 23 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A tall Latin cross with plain arms occupies the center of the field, its foot resting on a small decorative element. The cross is rendered in a bold, unadorned style characteristic of hammered ecclesiastical coinage of the late sixteenth century. A circular legend in Latin majuscules surrounds the central device, reading NON ALIVNDE GLORIA, a motto asserting that glory comes from no other source, with the date 1581 completing the inscription. The legend is separated from the cross by a beaded inner border, and the coin exhibits the irregular flan typical of hand-struck Renaissance-era gold coinage. |
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The Abbey of Fruttuaria, founded in 1003 near San Benigno Canavese by William of Volpiano, held minting rights as part of its extensive imperial privileges — a grant that made it one of the few ecclesiastical institutions in Piedmont with genuine monetary authority. By 1581, those rights were largely an anachronism, exercised sporadically and in small quantities. Giovanni Battista di Savoia Racconigi, a member of the House of Savoy appointed to the abbacy in commendam, almost certainly authorized this scudo as a prestige issue rather than a circulation piece.
CNI II#4 records suggest survival is extremely limited.