fwo_542904 - COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - CLEMENT VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini) Douzain 1599 Avignon

COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - CLEMENT VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini) Douzain 1599 Avignon F

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Type : Douzain

Date: 1599

Mint name / Town : Avignon

Metal : billon

Diameter : 23,45 mm

Orientation dies : 5 h.

Weight : 2,34 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce douzain est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et présente une forte usure

Catalogue references :

Munt.111 - PC.1516 - MIR.10.1483/6

Predigree :

Exemplaire de la collection Alfredo Meneghin

Obverse

Obverse legend : CLEMENS VIII. PONT. MAX..

Obverse description : Écu pontifical surmonté de la tiare pontificale, accosté de A - A.

Obverse translation : (Clément VIII, grand pontif).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + OCT. CAR. D. AQVAVIVA. LEG. AVE 1599.

Reverse description : Croix échancrée, cantonnée aux 1 et 4 de la croix de Jérusalem, aux 2 et 3 d’un lion.

Reverse translation : (Octave, cardinal de Aquaviva, légat d’Avignon, 1599).

Commentary

Frappe au nom du légat pontifical le cardinal Ottavio Acquaviva.

Historical background

COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - CLEMENT VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini)

(30/01/1592-3/03/1605)

Legate Cardinal Octave Aquaviva

Clement VIII was elected pope at the age of 46 and published the Vulgate begun by Sixtus V. After the conversion of Henri IV and his return to the Catholic faith ("Paris is well worth a mass") in 1594, the pope lifted the excommunication which weighed on him and tried to rebuild the union of Christian princes against Protestantism but he died in 1605.

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