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1 Soldo - Charles Emmanuel IV
| Issuer | Piedmont-Sardinia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1797-1798 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | D·G·REX·SARD·CYP·ET·IER·&· |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Charles Emmanuel IV issued this coin under extraordinary duress: by 1797, French Revolutionary forces had stripped Piedmont of its outlying territories and effectively reduced the king to a vassal in his own capital. The 1797–1798 dating bracket is tight by necessity — he abdicated in December 1798 under direct French pressure and fled to Sardinia, ending Piedmontese coinage on the mainland entirely.
Billon issues of this type circulated in a economy already collapsing under war indemnities demanded by Napoleon after the Armistice of Cherasco.