White Maille - Amadeus VI

Amadeus VI — the "Green Count," named for the color he wore at a celebrated 1353 tournament — ruled Savoy through a period of aggressive territorial consolidation, pushing the county's borders toward the Alps and into Piedmont. His monetary policy followed the same logic: standardizing coinage across a patchwork of recently absorbed lordships that had each previously struck their own issues. The white maille was part of that rationalization, circulating through markets from Geneva to Turin under a single Savoyard authority.

The forty-year bracket on this issue reflects genuine minting continuity rather than scholarly uncertainty — Amadeus VI's reign ran from 1343 to his death in 1383 on campaign in southern Italy.