2 Grossi - Emanuele Filiberto

Emanuele Filiberto recovered Savoy from French occupation only after the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis in 1559, which means the earlier dates in this issue's range were struck under genuinely precarious political conditions — the duke was reforming his finances while still negotiating the return of his own capital. He moved the seat of government from Chambéry to Turin in 1563, and the mint followed, making pieces from either side of that move attributable by die study rather than any mark visible to the casual eye.