Live auction - bfe_382211 - COMTAT-VENAISSIN - CLEMENT VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini) Clementino (guilio)

COMTAT-VENAISSIN - CLEMENT VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini) Clementino (guilio) XF

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Estimate :	380 €
Price :	250 €
Maximum bid :	250 €
End of the sale :	01 March 2016 16:44:16
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Clementino (guilio)

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Avignon

Metal : billon

Diameter : 27,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 3,52 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce guilio est frappé sur un flan irrégulier, large et légèrement voilé. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise

Catalogue references :

Bd.952 (15 f.) - PA.4361 (96/2) - PC.1510 - Muntoni103

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant du catalogue FRANCE I, n° 263 de CGB et de la collection Yves Caille

Obverse

Obverse legend : CLEMENS. VIII. PONTI. O.M.*.

Obverse description : Écu aux armes de Clément VIII, sous deux clefs croisées et la tiare pontificale.

Obverse translation : (Clément VIII, grand pontife).

Reverse

Reverse legend : S. PETRVS. - .AVENIO.

Reverse description : Écu sous une croix et un chapeau cardinalice sommé d’un buste de Saint-Pierre.

Reverse translation : (Saint Pierre, Avignon).

Historical background

COMTAT-VENAISSIN - CLEMENT VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini)

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

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.