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1/2 Piastra - Innocent XI AVARVS NON IMPLEBITVR
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1682 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (1682) - A٠VII |
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Innocent XI — born Benedetto Odescalchi — was elected in 1676 after the cardinals deadlocked for two months. His papacy was defined by fiscal austerity and an open hostility toward nepotism; he refused to enrich his own family and dismantled several of the revenue-generating sinecures his predecessors had quietly institutionalized. The motto on this coin, drawn from Ecclesiastes, was not decorative piety — it was policy.
He was beatified in 1956, one of very few popes to reach that status in the modern era.