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1 Ducato - Ludovico Trevisan Sede Vacante
| Issuer | Papal States - Bologna Mint (Sede Vacante, 1464) |
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| Year | 1464 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (1 Ducato) (24) |
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| Reverse description | Saint Peter stands facing in full figure, nimbed and draped in episcopal vestments, holding a large key in his right hand and a closed book in his left; at his feet to the left is a heraldic shield bearing the arms associated with the Sede Vacante administration of Ludovico Trevisan. The figure is rendered in the bold, somewhat archaic relief characteristic of mid-fifteenth-century Bolognese hammered gold coinage. The legend S PETRVS A POSTOLVS runs around the periphery within a beaded border. |
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| Mintage | 1464: ND (1464) |
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Ludovico Trevisan — cardinal, condottiere, and Patriarch of Aquileia — held administrative authority over Bologna during the vacancy that followed Pius II's death in August 1464. The Sede Vacante coinage issued from Bologna in that interregnum was struck under his direct governance, not merely his patronage. Trevisan was one of the more militarily active princes of the Church, having personally commanded papal forces at the Battle of Anghiari's aftermath and against the Turks at sea.
The Bologna mint's right to strike gold during vacancies was a longstanding privilege, jealously maintained against Roman centralization.