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1 Teston - Peter Berard
| Issuer | County of Desana (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1516-1529 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (1516-1529) |
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Desana was among the smallest feudal lordships in Piedmont, a pocket territory that somehow retained its autonomy amid the relentless Habsburg-Valois wars that consumed northern Italy during precisely these years. Peter Berard — Pietro Berardo — held the county during a period when French and Imperial armies were effectively dismantling the political map around him. That a teston was struck at all under such a minor lord speaks to the prestige value of the denomination itself, which had spread rapidly through the Italian states after its introduction in Milan in the 1470s.