ITALY SAVOY Carlo II 1504-53 quarto Torino mint
$35.00
ITALY, SAVOY, Carlo II, 1504-53, quarto, no date, Torino mint, Obverse: FERT in circle, annulets above and below, CAROLVS DVX SA II, Reverse: floreate cross in beaded circle, annulet in one angles, M IN IT ______I. CA XIN___, billon, 16mm, 0.87g, I couldn’t find it online, F
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Carlo II was also called III because there is an argument about whether Carlo Giovanni Amedeo should be called Carlo II or not. He had financial problems, got into difficulties with France, which invaded his territories and took most of them. He died in exile.
Savoy was a duchy situated in northwestern Italy and southeastern France. Most of it is in France now. It emerged as autonomous in the 11th century. It’s dukes later became kings, the last of which became the first King of united Italy. Also referred to in the 19th century context as “Piedmont.”
After the devolution of the Western Roman Empire into a German kingdom the Italian peninsula went through about 1800 years of disunity and foreign conquest before the War of Unification in the 1860s.
The political arrangements that resulted in the nations of modern Europe began to emerge out of local autonomy starting in the 7th century AD or so. Europe, for our purposes, stretches from Greenland to somewhere in Russia. Collectors of Europe would likely include Russia. Collectors of Asia, even though about 2/3 of Russia is in Asia, probably not.
By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.
