Asti's gold scudi of this period were struck under Orléanist lordship following the inheritance of the city by Louis d'Orléans through his mother Valentina Visconti — a dynastic claim that drew Asti firmly into the orbit of French ambition in northern Italy decades before the Italian Wars formally began. The city functioned as a French bridgehead in Piedmont, and its mint output reflected that political dependency directly.
CNI II#3 places this among the earliest documented Orléanist strikes from the Asti mint. Surviving examples are genuinely scarce.
Asti's gold scudi of this period were struck under Orléanist lordship following the inheritance of the city by Louis d'Orléans through his mother Valentina Visconti — a dynastic claim that drew Asti firmly into the orbit of French ambition in northern Italy decades before the Italian Wars formally began. The city functioned as a French bridgehead in Piedmont, and its mint output reflected that political dependency directly.
CNI II#3 places this among the earliest documented Orléanist strikes from the Asti mint. Surviving examples are genuinely scarce.