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1 Scudo - Louis II Tizzone
| Issuer | County of Desana (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1510-1525 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse description | Crowned heraldic shield of the Tizzone arms, rendered in a bold Renaissance style, occupies the center of the field within a beaded inner circle. The shield displays a diagonally striped (barry-bendy) field, surmounted by an ornate crown. The surrounding circular legend reads LVD TICIO DECI CO VIC IMP, identifying Louis II Tizzone as Count of Desana and Imperial Vicar. |
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| Obverse lettering | LVD · TICIO · DECI · CO · VIC · IMP |
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Desana was a minuscule imperial fief in the Po Valley, and the Tizzone family's right to strike gold was a privilege jealously defended against repeated challenges from neighboring Monferrato and Savoy. Louis II held the countship during a period when French and Spanish armies were dismembering northern Italy in the Italian Wars, and small dynastic mints like Desana often exploited that geopolitical chaos — issuing coinage while larger powers were too distracted to enforce suppression orders from Milan or the Emperor.
Surviving examples attributable to this issue are rare enough that die linkage studies remain incomplete.