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Patac Forte o Pataco - Louis Ier - type II
| Issuer | Duchy of Savoy (Savoy (France), French States) |
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| Year | 1449 |
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| Currency | Livre |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a large Gothic letter L, crowned and flanked by four small annulets disposed in the quarters. The initial, rendered in uncial style, is enclosed within a plain inner circle. The surrounding marginal legend reads + LUDOVICVS . DUX, identifying Duke Louis I of Savoy. |
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| Obverse lettering | L + UDOVICVS . DUX |
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Louis I of Savoy issued this billon patac during a period when the duchy was threading carefully between French and Burgundian spheres of influence — a balancing act that defined much of his 46-year reign. The patac itself was a workhorse denomination, struck in billon precisely because the duchy's silver reserves were under persistent strain from military obligations and the costs of maintaining a court that punched well above its political weight.
The Type II distinction from Biaggi separates this from earlier emissions by die characteristics catalogued across the CS references at numbers 173 and 176 — two subtly divergent die marriages within the same emission.