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1 Giulio - Julius III
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1550 |
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| Value | 1 Giulio (0.1) |
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| Reverse description | The central device depicts the Holy Door (Porta Santa) of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, rendered as a classical architectural portal with a triangular pediment supported by pilasters, the door panel shown closed — a powerful symbol of the 1550 Holy Year proclaimed by Julius III. Inscribed across the face of the door panel in four lines is the date AN · DNI · M · D · L (Anno Domini 1550), while the word ROMA is divided across the field to the left and right of the portal. The surrounding circumferential legend in Latin reads IVSTI · INTRABVNT · PER · EAM, a quotation referencing Psalm 118:20 — 'the righteous shall enter through it' — directly referencing the Jubilee indulgence. The entire composition is enclosed within a rope-twist border, a decorative element typical of Papal State coinage of the sixteenth century. |
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| Mintage | 1550 - MDL |
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Julius III — born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte — was elected pope in February 1550 after one of the most contentious and prolonged conclaves of the sixteenth century, lasting over two months and nearly deadlocked between French and Imperial factions. His pontificate is remembered as much for personal scandal as governance; his attachment to a young man named Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte, whom he elevated to cardinal at seventeen, scandalized Rome and drew open ridicule from figures including Michelangelo.
The giulio itself took its name from Julius II, who introduced the denomination decades earlier.