Denier - Amadeus IV

Amadeus IV consolidated Savoyard authority over the Alpine passes at a moment when trans-Alpine traffic — pilgrims, merchants, papal legates — was generating serious toll revenue. The county's right to strike silver coinage was both a fiscal instrument and a political declaration toward the competing claims of Burgundy and the Empire. His reign saw formal recognition of Savoy's coinage rights reinforced through treaties with neighboring lords who had previously disputed them.

MIR 34 is among the earlier documented Savoyard deniers with reasonably attributable iconographic continuity, though die variation within the type is substantial enough that specimens diverging from the plate coin remain common in trade.