2 Filiberto - Emmanuel Philibert I

Emmanuel Philibert struck this piece following the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis in 1559, which returned Savoy's territories after over two decades of French occupation. The duchy had been effectively stateless since 1536, its administration absorbed into the French crown's machinery. Reestablishing a gold coinage of this weight was a deliberate assertion of restored sovereignty — not sentiment, but fiscal infrastructure for a ruler who also relocated his capital from Chambéry to Turin that same decade.

The filiberto denomination takes its name directly from the duke himself, an unusual nominative choice that places this among a small group of early modern coins named for living rulers rather than abstract values.