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1/2 Baiocco
| Issuer | Roman Republic |
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| Year | 1798 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MEZZO BAIOCCO FERMO |
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The Roman Republic of 1798 was a French-backed revolutionary state that displaced papal authority following Napoleon's Italian campaigns and the capture of Pope Pius VI. It survived less than eighteen months before the Neapolitan army and Cardinal Ruffo's Sanfedist forces restored papal control in 1799. Coinage from this period is scarce simply because the republic lacked both time and stable infrastructure to mint in quantity.
The baiocco denomination itself was inherited directly from the papal monetary system — a deliberate continuity that sat uneasily alongside the republic's revolutionary ideology.