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1 Doppia - Pio VII APOSTOLOR PRINCEPS - St. Peter
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1801-1809 |
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| Value | 1 Doppia (2) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Saint Peter, Prince of the Apostles, depicted seated on clouds in three-quarter view, his right hand raised in blessing and his left hand holding the keys of Heaven. He wears flowing papal robes and is shown with a nimbus (halo) around his head. Below the figure, a tiara rests at the base of the composition. The legend APOSTOLOR PRINCEPS arcs across the upper field. The reeded border frames the dignified and classically composed figure in the manner typical of Papal coinage of the period. |
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Pio VII — Barnaba Chiaramonti — was elected in Venice in 1800 because Rome itself was under French occupation and the conclave could not safely convene there. This doppia belongs to his first pontifical period, before Napoleon had him arrested and dragged to France in 1809, where he remained a prisoner until 1814. The coinage of these years carries a particular weight: it was struck by a papacy that had already lost temporal control of much of its territory to the Cisalpine Republic and was negotiating the 1801 Concordat with Bonaparte from a position of near-total weakness.
The Gigante numbering across seven varieties reflects die changes through the nine-year span.