1 Grosso - Innocent XI NOCET MINVS - Palm wreath

Innocent XI — Benedetto Odescalchi — was the pope who bankrolled the Holy League's campaign against the Ottomans, contributing substantially to the financing of Jan Sobieski's relief of Vienna in 1683. His papacy was defined by fiscal austerity and moral reform; he abolished the sale of offices and cut Vatican expenditure to the bone, which makes the relatively clean administration behind these small silver issues somewhat unusual for the period. The NOCET MINVS device motto, drawn from emblem literature, signals a studied humility — less harm done by restraint than by excess.