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fwo_542900 - ITALY - PAPAL STATES - SIXTUS V (Felice Peretti di Grottammare) Teston an I (1585) Rome

ITALY - PAPAL STATES - SIXTUS V (Felice Peretti di Grottammare) Teston an I (1585) Rome VF
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Price : 60.00 €
Type : Teston an I
Date: (1585)
Mint name / Town : Roma
Quantity minted : -
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26,94 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 7,21 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
flan légèrement bombé, l’essentiel des légendes est hors du flan mais la monnaie reste identifiable
Catalogue references :
Munt.13  - PC.1318  - MIR.10.1303/1  - CNI/XVI.20
Predigree :
Exemplaire de la collection Alfredo Meneghin

Obverse

Obverse legend : ·SIXTVS·V·PONT·MAX·A·I N+S.
Obverse description : écu surmonté des clefs et de la tiare pontificale.
Obverse translation : (Sixte V grand pontife).

Reverse

Reverse legend : NVNQVAM DEFICIET.
Reverse description : figure debout de la foi tenant à la main gauche une longue croix et à la main droite une tiare.

Commentary

Les lettres NS et la croix sont la marque de Meo Neri et Orazio Spadio.

Historical background

ITALY - PAPAL STATES - 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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