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1 Bianco - Gregory XIII
| Issuer | Papal States - Bologna Mint |
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| Year | 1572-1585 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse lettering | • BONONIA ∙ MATER ∙ STVDIORVM • |
| Edge | Plain |
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Gregory XIII is remembered almost exclusively for the 1582 calendar reform that bears his name, but his pontificate also coincided with a period of aggressive monetary reorganization across the Papal States. The Bologna mint, operating under papal authority but with a long tradition of civic coinage, produced this bianco under a framework that was already being challenged by the spread of larger silver thalers from the north.
The bianco denomination itself was a legacy unit struggling for relevance by the 1570s, increasingly squeezed between petty billon issues below and the growing scudo above.