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1 Piastra - Alessandro VII DISPERSIT DEDIT PAVPERIBVS - St. Thomas of Villanova
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1658 |
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| Currency | Scudo (1534-1835) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alessandro VII — born Fabio Chigi — was elected pope in 1655 after serving as the papal legate who negotiated, and publicly wept over, the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, a treaty he considered a catastrophe for Catholic Europe. His pontificate coincided with the canonization of Thomas of Villanova in 1658, the Augustinian Archbishop of Valencia renowned for distributing his personal wealth among the poor — hence the inscription drawn from Psalm 112. The piastra commemorating that canonization is among the more deliberately theological coin issues of the seventeenth-century papacy.
Munt#7 places this among the earlier die pairings of the type. The 35-gram silver fabric is characteristic of the Roman mint's output under this pontificate.