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Groschen - Charles I
| Issuer | Duchy of Savoy (Savoy (France), French States) |
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| Year | 1482-1490 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen (1⁄20) |
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| Reverse description | Crowned and helmeted shield of arms of Savoy displayed in the centre of the field, flanked by supporters or decorative mantling rendered in the angular style typical of late fifteenth-century Savoyard coinage. The circumscribed legend in uncial Latin records the duke's additional titles. The overall composition reflects the heraldic conventions of the period, with the cross of Savoy prominent on the escutcheon. |
| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Charles I of Savoy ruled during a period of acute dynastic pressure, caught between French Valois ambitions and the expanding reach of the Habsburgs. His reign saw Savoy function less as an independent power than as a buffer absorbing competing demands from larger neighbors. The groschen denomination itself was a northern European import — the term filtering south through decades of cross-Alpine trade — and its adoption in Savoy reflects the duchy's economic entanglement with Swiss and Burgundian monetary networks rather than any purely domestic monetary initiative.
MIR CS#231 is a relatively scarce type with limited surviving population across major collections.