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1 Scudo - Ludovico duca d'Orléans Bust
| Issuer | Asti (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1465-1498 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust of Ludovico, Duke of Orléans, depicted as a youthful figure wearing a cap adorned with a fleur-de-lis finial, with short bobbed hair falling to the collar. The effigy is rendered in late-Gothic style typical of north Italian hammered gold coinage of the late fifteenth century. A beaded inner circle frames the portrait. The Latin legend LVDOVICVS DVX AVRELIANESI runs around the periphery between the beaded and outer borders, identifying the issuer by name and title. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Asti's gold scudo issues under Louis d'Orléans reflect a peculiar dynastic footnote: Louis held the city through inheritance from his grandmother Valentina Visconti, whose dowry had transferred Asti to the Orléans line in 1387. He governed as an absentee lord for most of this period, and the city's mint operated under local administration answering to a French duke who would not set foot in Italy until his invasion of 1499 — by which point he had become Louis XII of France and the political calculus had changed entirely.