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1 Grosso - Paul V St. Paul
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1618 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Saint Paul standing in full figure, facing front, holding a sword in his right hand and a book in his left, as is conventional in Roman apostolic iconography. A mintmark or privy mark appears in the lower right field. The circular Latin legend names the saint and the city of Rome, all enclosed within a beaded border consistent with the hammered technique of the Roman mint. |
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Paul V — born Camillo Borghese — spent much of his pontificate in open legal conflict with Venice, placing the entire republic under interdict in 1606 in a dispute over clerical jurisdiction that drew in both Spain and France before collapsing without a clear victor. His papacy coincided with Galileo's first brush with the Inquisition and the early salvos of what would become the Thirty Years' War. The grosso series under Paul V is relatively well-documented through the Berman and Muntoni references, with minor die variations catalogued across the Munt#106–110 sequence.