1 Fiorino di Camera - Clement VII

Clement VII's pontificate was defined less by ecclesiastical administration than by catastrophic political miscalculation. His vacillation between Charles V and Francis I during the Italian Wars ended with the Sack of Rome in May 1527, when imperial troops — many of them unpaid Lutheran landsknechts — occupied the city for months. Clement himself was imprisoned in Castel Sant'Angelo for the better part of a year.

Gold coinage continued to be struck in his name even during the occupation, though papal mint output was severely disrupted through 1528. Fr#60 is among the issues produced across this fractured decade.