v31_1581 - COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - INNOCENT VIII (Giovanni Battista Cibo) Demi-carlin ?

COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - INNOCENT VIII (Giovanni Battista Cibo) Demi-carlin ? VF

MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 130.00 €
Estimate : 230.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Demi-carlin ?

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Avignon

Metal : billon

Diameter : 20,5 mm

Orientation dies : 4 h.

Weight : 0,87 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Ce demi-carlin est frappé sur un flan assez large, légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise. La croix du revers apparaît en négatif au droit

Catalogue references :

PA.4267 var. - Muntoni25 - PC.518

Obverse

Obverse legend : INNOCENCIVS. - PP: OCTAVVS.

Obverse description : Le pape assis, la tiare coupant la légende, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche.

Obverse translation : (Innocent VIII, grand pontife).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + SAN-CTVS - PET-RVS.

Reverse description : Croix coupant la légende cantonnée de quatre groupes de deux clefs croisées.

Reverse translation : (Saint Pierre).

Historical background

COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - INNOCENT VIII (Giovanni Battista Cibo)

(1484-1492)

Jean-Baptiste Cibo, born in Genoa in 1432, was elected pope on August 29, 1484 and was consecrated on the following September 12 under the name of Innocent VIII. He succeeded Sixtus IV who died on August 12, 1484. In 1487, following the policy of his predecessors, Innocent VIII launched a campaign against the Waldenses, a current of evangelicalism and anticlericalism that appeared at the end of the 12th century (in 1532 the Waldensians definitively broke with the Church by attaching themselves to Protestantism). He is best known for his condemnation of Jean Pic de la Mirandola whose theses, partly inspired by Jewish Kabbalah, scandalized the theologians of Rome. Innocent VIII died in Rome on July 25, 1492; Alexander VI (1492-1503) succeeded him.