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2 Doppie - Charles I
| Issuer | Duchy of Mantua (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1629-1636 |
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| Value | 2 Doppie (16) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | CAROLVS I D G DVX MANT 1629 |
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Charles I of Gonzaga-Nevers inherited Mantua in 1627 through a contested succession that triggered the War of the Mantuan Succession, drawing France, Spain, and the Empire into a ruinous conflict that ended only with the Treaty of Cherasco in 1631. The duchy was sacked by Imperial troops in 1630 — one of the most destructive episodes of the Thirty Years' War in northern Italy — and much of the city's accumulated wealth was stripped or destroyed. That this gold issue was produced across such a compressed and violent window makes surviving examples genuinely scarce.
Charles died in 1637, leaving a duchy financially and demographically hollowed out.