1 Lira - Alexander VII

Alexander VII — born Fabio Chigi — spent much of his papacy navigating the humiliation of the 1664 French occupation of the Papal enclave at Avignon, a crisis that forced a formal papal apology to Louis XIV under the Treaty of Pisa. Bologna, as a Legation rather than directly administered papal territory, maintained its own mint with a degree of autonomy that occasionally produced coinage diverging in style from Rome's output. The CNI X attribution places this firmly within a well-documented but short emission window tied to the final years of Alexander's reign.