Live auction - fwo_582123 - ITALY - PIACENZA - PAOLO III Scudo n.d. Plaisance

ITALY - PIACENZA - PAOLO III Scudo n.d. Plaisance AU

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Estimate :	800 €
Price :	880 €
Maximum bid :	880 €
End of the sale :	16 June 2020 19:31:40
bidders :	4 bidders

Type : Scudo

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Plaisance

Metal : gold

Diameter : 25 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 3,1 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan légèrement irrégulier avec une partie de légendes hors flan. Fine patine homogène

Catalogue references :

PC.968 - F.422

Obverse

Obverse legend : . - PAV. III. P. - .M. PLAC. D - ., (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE TRIANGLE).

Obverse description : Écu de Paul III sous deux clefs croisées et une tiare pontificale.

Obverse translation : (Paul III, grand pontife, seigneur de Plaisance).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + NON. ALIVNDE. SALVS., (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE TRIANGLE).

Reverse description : Croix fleurdelisée avec quadrilobe en cœur, cantonnée au 1 d’un P, au 2 d’une L, au 3 d’un C, au 4 d’un A (PLAC).

Historical background

ITALY - PIACENZA - PAOLO III

(13/10/1534-09/11/1549)

On October 13, 1534, then sixty-six years old, Paul III was unanimously elected pope and was consecrated on the following November 3. In 1535 he appointed Michelangelo first architect. In 1538, he attended the interview in Nice between Charles V and François I. It was in 1541, under his pontificate, Michelangelo completed the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. He died on November 9, 1549.