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1/2 Baiocco - Pius VII Inscription divided by dashed line
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1822 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Four-line Latin inscription filling the central field, identifying the issuing pontiff as PIVS SEPTIMVS PONTIFEX MAXIMVS. A horizontal dashed line separates the name and title from the date MDCCCXXII (1822) rendered in Roman numerals below. The Rome mint mark R appears in the exergue beneath the date, flanked by decorative stops. The plain border and absence of figural imagery lend the reverse a severe, epigraphic character typical of early nineteenth-century Papal State copper coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pius VII returned to Rome in 1814 after Napoleon's forced exile of him to Savona and then Fontainebleau — a captivity lasting nearly five years. The reorganization of Papal coinage that followed took years to stabilize, and minor copper issues like this one were part of a broader effort to re-establish functioning small-denomination circulation across the Papal States after a decade of French monetary administration.
The dashed-line inscription division on this type is a recognized catalog variant distinct from the continuous-legend format, noted separately under KM#1290.