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Obverse: Bust of Duke Charles II facing left. . Reverse: Smiling Sun with 15 rays Mint: Casale Monferrat, Italy Size: 17 mm Weight: 1.28 g Reference: Inventory: 56.1 Condition: VF. A nice example for this interesting type! As always, Please Use the Picture as your judge as grading is subjective.
Notes: Charles Gonzaga was Duke of Mantua and Montferrat and was the son of Charles of Gonzaga-Nevers of Rethel, Nevers, Mantua, and Montferrat and Maria Gonzaga. He followed his grandfather Charles I, Duke of Mantua, in 1637 as ruler of these lands, the first ten years under regency of his mother Duchess Maria. On 22 March 1657 Charles II received appointment as Imperial Vicar in Italy. Charles sold the Duchies of Nevers and Rethel in 1659 to Cardinal Jules Mazarin, the factual Regent of France, and they became part of France. In 1649 Charles II married Isabella Clara of Austria, the daughter of Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, and thus into the imperial family. The marriage was an act of diplomacy and they had only one child, his successor Ferdinand Charles, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1652–1708). Charles tried to revive the tradition of his family as patrons of the arts and to rebuild his family's art collection, which had been largely sold off by his forebears. He appointed in 1657 the Flemish painter and printmaker Daniel van den Dyck as his official court painter, architect, surveyor of his building program and engineer for stage designs for the theatre. Casale Monferrato is a town in the Piedmont region of Italy. It is situated about 60 km east of Turin on the right bank of the Po, where the river runs at the foot of the Montferrat hills. Beyond the river lies the vast plain of the Po valley. As an ancient Roman municipium, the town has been the most important trade and manufacturing centre of the area for centuries. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Casale became a free municipality and, in the 15th and early 16th centuries, served as the capital of the House of Palaiologos. Then in 1536 the town passed to the Gonzagas who fortified it with a large citadel. In the 17th century Casale was heavily involved in the War of the Mantuan Succession and besieged by French and Spanish troops. Includes excerpts from Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
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