1 Testone - Michele Antonio

Michele Antonio ruled Saluzzo under persistent French suzerainty, and the marquisate's coinage during his reign reflects that dependency — the testone denomination itself was borrowed directly from French monetary practice filtering south across the Alps. Saluzzo sat geographically and politically between France and the Italian states, and its silver issues circulated in a zone where allegiances shifted with each French military campaign into the peninsula.

The CNI records multiple die variants across this type, catalogued as nos. 25 through 46 — an unusually wide spread for a minor marquisate, suggesting episodic rather than continuous production over the reign's two-plus decades.