bfe_1024264 - COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - PAUL III Guilio
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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Guilio
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Avignon
Metal : billon
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 1,02 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Ce guilio est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et légèrement voilé. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : PAVLV[S (MOUCHETURE D’HERMINE) - PP (MOUCHETURE D’HERMINE) TER]T[I]VS.
Obverse description : Paul III trônant de face, bénissant de la main droite et tenant une croix patriarcale de la gauche.
Obverse translation : (Paul III, grand pontife).
Reverse
Reverse legend : / [...]AR.C/ LEG. A / AVE / [...]AR.C.
Reverse description : Croix coupant la légende, cantonnée de quatre paires de clefs posées en sautoir.
Reverse translation : (Alexandre Farnèse, légat d’Avignon).
Historical background
COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - PAUL III
(13/10/1534-09/11/1549)
On October 13, 1534, then sixty-six years old, Paul III was unanimously elected pope and was consecrated on the following November 3. In 1535 he appointed Michelangelo first architect. In 1538, he attended the interview in Nice between Charles V and François I. It was in 1541, under his pontificate, Michelangelo completed the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. He died on November 9, 1549.
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