1 Scudo - Louis II Tizzone

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.