Ludovico II ruled the Marquisate of Saluzzo in a permanent state of diplomatic tension — the small piedmontese state perpetually squeezed between French ambition and Savoyard pressure. His marriage to Margherita di Foix in 1503, the same year this coin was struck, was itself a calculated alignment with French interests, and the joint issue celebrating it served as much as a political declaration as a monetary one. Saluzzo's coinage production was always limited in scale, and a 10 Scudi presentation piece of this weight survives in genuinely small numbers.
Ludovico II ruled the Marquisate of Saluzzo in a permanent state of diplomatic tension — the small piedmontese state perpetually squeezed between French ambition and Savoyard pressure. His marriage to Margherita di Foix in 1503, the same year this coin was struck, was itself a calculated alignment with French interests, and the joint issue celebrating it served as much as a political declaration as a monetary one. Saluzzo's coinage production was always limited in scale, and a 10 Scudi presentation piece of this weight survives in genuinely small numbers.