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Soldo - Charles Emmanuel I 4th type
| Issuer | Duchy of Savoy |
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| Year | 1594-1600 |
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| Reference(s) | MIR#663 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1594 G - (fr) atelier Chambéry - Maître d`atelier Chiaffredo Grobert - 1595 - (fr) atelier Chambéry - 1595 A - (fr) atelier Chambéry - Maître d`atelier Bartolomeo Arnaldi - 1595 CI - (fr) atelier Chambéry - Maître d`atelier Gaspare Cornaglia - 1595 G - (fr) atelier Cambéry - Maître d`atelier Chiaffredo Grobert - 1596 G - (fr) atelier Chambéry - Maître d`atelier Chiaffredo Grobert - 1597 G - (fr) atelier Chambéry - Maître d`atelier Chiaffredo Grobert - 1600 HG - (fr) atelier Chambéry - Maître d`atelier Heredes Grobert - |
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Charles Emmanuel I spent much of the 1590s entangled in the Franco-Savoyard War, having gambled on Spanish backing to seize the Marquisate of Saluzzo from Henri IV — a campaign that drained ducal finances and made small billon coinage a practical necessity for paying troops and provisioning garrisons. The Treaty of Lyon in 1601 would ultimately force him to surrender Saluzzo anyway, making this issue a product of a war he lost.
MIR 663 distinguishes this as the fourth type in a sequence of soldo variants, reflecting the multiple retoolings common when a mint struggles to maintain consistent bullion supply under wartime pressure.