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1 Soldo - Emanuele Filiberto 2nd type
| Issuer | Duchy of Savoy |
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| Year | 1563-1581 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A bold Mauritian (or Cross of Savoy) cross with slightly splayed arms, set within a prominent four-lobed quatrefoil frame, each lobe adorned with small pellets at the intersections. The overall design is rendered in high relief against a flat field. The surrounding circular Latin legend reads: + IN • TE • DOMINE • CONFIDO • [date] • [mintmaster's initial] •, translating as 'In Thee, O Lord, I trust,' followed by the date and mintmaster's initial. The composition is characteristic of Savoyard billon coinage of the late sixteenth century. |
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Emanuele Filiberto reclaimed Savoy from French occupation through the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis in 1559 and immediately set about rebuilding ducal authority, which included overhauling a monetary system that had fragmented badly under foreign administration. This soldo belongs to his second coinage reorganization, driven partly by the duke's decision to move the capital from Chambéry to Turin in 1563 — the same year this type begins.
Billon at .222 fine was already scraping the lower boundary of silver coinage, reflecting chronic metal shortages that plagued Savoyard minting throughout the 1560s and 1570s.