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1 Piastra - Innocenzo XII NOVIT IVSTVS CAVSAM PAVPERVM - Charity
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1693 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Innocenzo XII — Antonio Pignatelli — issued this piastra amid his sweeping campaign against nepotism, codified in the 1692 bull Romanum decet Pontificem, which formally prohibited popes from granting estates, offices, or revenues to relatives. It was the most direct papal attack on the practice since the Council of Trent had failed to resolve it a century and a half earlier. The legend referencing justice for the poor was not decorative sentiment — Innocenzo dissolved the Curia's entrenched family patronage networks and redirected significant revenues toward poor relief institutions in Rome.
The Munt#23 attribution places this among the earlier piastra strikings of his pontificate, before the type was revised.