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1 Ducato - Pius II
| Issuer | Bologna (Papal States) |
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| Year | 1458-1464 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ⸰ S ⸰ PETRVS ⸰ APOSTOLVS ⸰ (Translation: Saint Peter, apostle) |
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| Mintage | ND (1458-1464) |
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Enea Silvio Piccolomini — scholar, poet, diplomat, and author of one of the Renaissance's more scandalous prose romances — became Pius II in 1458 and almost immediately declared a crusade against the Ottomans following the fall of Constantinople five years earlier. Bologna's mint struck this ducato under papal authority during that pontificate, a period when the city's relationship with Rome was managed through a papal legate rather than direct rule, making these issues administratively distinct from Roman mint production.
Pius died at Ancona in 1464, still waiting for crusade fleets that never fully materialized.