W. C a r e w H a z l i t t Coinage of the European Continent

432 The Coins of Europe
The gold ducat of Giovanni Dandolo.
Scudo d' oro.
Mezzo-scudo d' oro.
Doppia = 2 scudi d ! ( oro).
Lira Tron )
Bagattmo )
Silver ducat, first issue.
wkh traits of the Doge
Triple grossetto (supposed to be a pattern).
lo-ducat piece.
1 2-ducat piece.
24-ducat piece.
loo-ducat piece.
The early Oselle, especially in gold.
The lo-lire silver piece of 1797.
.-. The die seems to have been broken while the
coin was being struck.
Any early copper in fine state.
Coins of short reigns, like that of Marco
Foscarini (1762-63).
The original territories of the Dukes of Savoy were
limited to the provinces of Savoy and Maurienne, which
were conferred at the end of the tenth century on
a son of the Marquis of Tuscany by Rodolph,
King of Burgundy. The Counts subsequently acquired the
Genevois, Chablais, Faucigny (1310), Vaud (1350), Piedmont,
Monteferrato, part of the Milanese, and Sardinia. The
county became a duchy in 1416, and a kingdom in 1720.
The princes of this house were titular Kings of Cyprus as
representatives of the Lusignan dynasty. When the kingdom
of Sardinia merged in 1861 in that of United Italy, the
patrimonial or ancestral estates in Savoy and Piedmont
passed by treaty to France.
The link with France had been periodically strengthened
by intermarriages and alliances ;
but the geographical
situation of Savoy brought its rulers and people equally into
contact with Italy and Switzerland, and the Savoyard
coinage chiefly leans to the Italian side.
The series opens abruptly with deniers in billon of
Umberto II.
(1080-1108); Umberto III. (1148-88) struck