Duchy of Milan 1 Testone - Carlo V, 1535 – 1556

1 Testone from Duchy of Milan. Issued from 1535 to 1556. Struck in Silver. Measures 28 mm and weighs 8.48 g.

Obverse

Charles V, graduate, swamped and armored bust on the right

Reverse

The river god Po, lying on the right, leans with his right arm on an urn from which the water of the river flows and with his left he holds a transverse scepter; the Salus augustea, standing on the left, holds a vertical rod with the left hand and with a right extended a patera from which feeds a snake that wraps itself on an altar.