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1 Lira - Clement VII
| Issuer | Bologna (Papal States) |
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| Year | 1529 |
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| Reference(s) | MIR#827, Munt#106, Berman#876, Chimienti#283-284 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | EXCOLLATO AERE٠DE٠REBVS SACRIS٠ET٠PRO PHAINS٠IN٠EGENO RVM٠SVBSIDIVM٠ ٠M٠D٠XXIX٠ BONONIA |
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Clement VII's pontificate was defined by catastrophe. The 1527 Sack of Rome by mutinous imperial troops left the pope a prisoner in Castel Sant'Angelo and the papal administration in ruins. Bologna issues like this lira emerged from the subsequent recovery period — it was in Bologna, in fact, that Clement met with Charles V in 1529 to negotiate the terms of a humiliating reconciliation, an encounter that culminated in the last imperial coronation ever performed by a pope.