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fwo_550520 - ITALY - PAPAL STATES - BENEDICT XIV (Prospero Lambertini) Grosso an VI (1745) Rome

ITALY - PAPAL STATES - BENEDICT XIV (Prospero Lambertini) Grosso an VI (1745) Rome VF
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Price : 40.00 €
Type : Grosso an VI
Date: (1745)
Mint name / Town : Roma
Quantity minted : -
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 19,17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,16 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
frappe décentrée
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire de la collection Alfredo Meneghin

Obverse


Obverse legend : BENED·XIV - PON·M·A·VI.
Obverse description : Ecu aux armes de Benoît XIV surmonté des armes pontificales.

Reverse


Reverse legend : S. PETRVS APOS·.
Reverse description : buste nimbé à droite de Saint Pierre.

Historical background


ITALY - PAPAL STATES - BENEDICT XIV (Prospero Lambertini)

(17/08/1740-3/05/1758)

Benedict XIV (1675-1758) succeeded Clement XII after a Sede Vacante of more than six months (February 6 - August 17, 1740). He was a great builder. He restored many monuments in Rome and Bologna where he was from. During the jubilee year in 1750, he excommunicated the Freemasons by the bull "Providas". Benedict XIV, a great scholar, established the ritual for beatifications and canonizations. He was also the defender of the Indians in America who suffered from bad treatment..

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