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1/2 Baiocco - Clement XI
| Issuer | Ferrara (Papal States) |
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| Year | 1719-1720 |
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| Currency | Scudo (1534-1835) |
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| Obverse lettering | *CLEM* XI* PO* MAX*AN XIX* (Translation: Clement 11th Supreme Pontiff Year 19 (of reign)) |
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| Mintage | 1719 - XIX - 1720 - XX - |
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Clement XI's pontificate was consumed almost entirely by the War of the Spanish Succession and its ruinous aftermath, including the humiliation of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, which stripped the Papacy of meaningful political leverage in Europe. By the time this piece was struck in Ferrara, the papal mint there was operating under increasingly centralized Roman oversight — Ferrara had been a direct papal possession only since 1598, and its regional mint retained a degree of local administrative identity that Rome periodically moved to curtail. The 1719–1720 dating brackets the final year of Clement's reign; he died in March 1721.