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2 Ducats - Philibert II
| Issuer | Duchy of Savoy |
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| Year | 1497-1504 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, facing right, wearing a flat ducal cap over long flowing hair rendered in fine parallel lines. The effigy displays the characteristic late Gothic portraiture style of the period, with the truncation showing a draped shoulder. A Latin legend in Gothic lettering encircles the bust reading PHILIBERTVS D SABAVDIE VIII, separated by pellets and a cross pattée, with a small ornamental mintmark at the base of the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philibert II — "il Bello" — ruled Savoy for just seven years before dying at twenty-four, reportedly from a chill caught while hunting. His widow, Margaret of Austria, daughter of Emperor Maximilian I, was so publicly grief-stricken that she never remarried and wore mourning dress for the rest of her life. Gold issues of his reign are genuinely scarce by survival rather than by artificial rarity — Savoy was not a heavy gold-producing duchy, and the window of production was narrow.