Denier - Amadeus IV

Amadeus IV's reign saw Savoy consolidate its grip on the Alpine passes at a moment when trans-Alpine commerce was accelerating sharply — the count extracted tolls from merchants moving between the Italian peninsula and the markets of Champagne, and coinage was as much an instrument of that fiscal control as any charter. The denier issues attributed to his reign are grouped across a twenty-year span precisely because documentary evidence for individual emission dates within the period remains thin.

MIR 34 places this type among the earliest of the comital series to show meaningful die-to-die consistency, suggesting a degree of mint organization uncommon in Savoyard issues before the mid-thirteenth century.