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Fort - Amadeus VIII
| Issuer | County of Savoy (Savoy (France), French States) |
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| Year | 1391-1416 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Large Gothic capital letter A occupying the central field, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The A is rendered in an ornate uncial style characteristic of late medieval Savoyard coinage. A circular legend surrounds the beaded border, reading AMEDEVS COMES, identifying Amadeus VIII as Count of Savoy. |
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| Obverse lettering | A mEDEVS COmES |
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Amadeus VIII inherited the county at age nine following his father's death at the Battle of Saint-Gothard in 1391, ruling first under regency. The fort — a small silver denomination that took its name from the fortis of earlier Savoyard issues — was the workhorse coin of his early reign, circulating through Alpine toll routes and market towns before Amadeus began his systematic territorial consolidation.
In 1416, Sigismund elevated Savoy to a duchy, ending the period this type covers. Amadeus later abdicated in 1434 to found a hermit community at Ripaille, only to be elected antipope Felix V in 1439 — the last antipope in Western history.