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fwo_536645 - COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - SIXTUS V (Felice Peretti di Grottammare) Six Blancs ou Double Sol Parisis 1587 Avignon

COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - SIXTUS V (Felice Peretti di Grottammare) Six Blancs ou Double Sol Parisis 1587 Avignon F
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Six Blancs ou Double Sol Parisis
Date: 1587
Mint name / Town : Avignon
Quantity minted : -
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,11 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,66 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
frappe sur un flan irrégulier, légendes partielles
Catalogue references :
Munt.88a  - PC.1390  - MIR.10.1348/2
Predigree :
Exemplaire de la collection Alfredo Meneghin

Obverse

Obverse legend : ·SIXTVS·V·PONTIF·MAX· // 1587.
Obverse description : grand S surmonté de la tiare pontificale.

Reverse

Reverse legend : +CARO·CA·LEGA·GEOR·CA·COLE·AVEN.
Reverse description : Croix cléchée fleurdelisée.
Reverse translation : (Charles de Bourbon, cardinal légat d’Avignon).

Historical background

COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - SIXTUS V (Felice Peretti di Grottammare)

(01/05/1585-27/08/1590)

Sixtus V was born into a poor family and was brought up by the Franciscans. On April 24, 1585, he was elected pope at the age of sixty-four and consecrated the following May 1. He published in 1587 the revised edition of the Septuagint Bible as well as the revised edition of the Vulgate. In 1589, he excommunicated Henry III for the assassination of the Duke of Guise. He died in Rome on August 27, 1590.

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