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1 Piastra - Clemente X Jubilee - DABIT FRVCTVM SVVMIN TEMPORE
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1675 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The elaborate crowned papal arms of Clement X occupy the central field, depicting a shield charged with six eight-pointed stars arranged in two columns, surmounted by the papal tiara and flanked by the crossed keys of Saint Peter. The shield is framed by richly engraved foliate and acanthus scroll ornamentation. The circular Latin legend reads CLEMENS·X PONT·MAX, distributed around the periphery within a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Clement X was nearly eighty years old when the 1675 Jubilee year arrived — frail, largely delegated to his cardinal nephew Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni, and unlikely to have handled much of the administrative machinery that produced this issue. The Holy Year nonetheless drew enormous pilgrim traffic to Rome, and jubilee piastras of this type were struck specifically to meet the demand for commemorative and devotional coinage circulating among visitors.
The CNI records two die varieties for this emission, catalogued as numbers 34 and 35 in volume XVI — a detail worth noting when reconciling auction appearances against the Berman and Muntoni references, which do not always distinguish between them.