1 Fiorino di camera - Sixtus IV

Sixtus IV's pontificate produced some of the most turbulent politics of the fifteenth century, and 1475 fell squarely in the years leading to the Pazzi Conspiracy — a plot the pope himself was almost certainly aware of in advance, if not an active participant. The fiorino di camera was the prestige gold denomination of the Apostolic Chamber, distinct from the fiorino di senato struck by the Roman commune, and its production was tightly controlled as an instrument of papal financial authority.

The Rome mint's output under Sixtus ran through several die marriages now catalogued under MIR 452's subvarieties. Berman 448 distinguishes this issue from closely related types by subtle punctuation differences in the legend.