fme_1125928 - ITALY - PAPAL STATES - BENEDICT XIII (Pietro Francesco Orsini) Médaille, Benoît XIII, Ouverture de la Porte Sainte
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Type : Médaille, Benoît XIII, Ouverture de la Porte Sainte
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 41 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver Ermenegildo et Giovanni Hamerani
Weight : 32,76 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des traces d’usure, rayures et taches d’oxydation. Concrétions blanches au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : BENEDICTVS. XIII. P. M. AN. IVBIL..
Obverse description : Buste habillé et coiffé d’une tiare à gauche. Signé : HAMERANVS F..
Reverse
Reverse legend : DOMVS DEI ET PORTA COELI.
Reverse description : Pape, suivi de sa cour, ouvrant la Porte Sainte. Sur le côté, des pèlerins en prière.
Historical background
ITALY - PAPAL STATES - BENEDICT XIII (Pietro Francesco Orsini)
(05/29/1724-02/21/1730)
Benedict XIII (1649-1730) succeeded Innocent XIII. He kept his monastic habits as a Benedictine monk, breaking with the decadence of his predecessors. However, the government of his states is left to his friend Niccolò Coscia who commits numerous financial embezzlements and ruins the papal treasury..
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