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1 Quattrino - Benedict XIV Flowers wreath
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1752 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination and date are inscribed in four lines across the central field, reading QVATRI / NO / ROMANO / 1752, enclosed within an oval wreath of stylised leafy branches tied at the base. A small six-pointed star or rosette appears at the apex of the wreath. The whole is contained within a beaded border. |
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Benedict XIV — Prospero Lambertini — was among the most intellectually engaged popes of the eighteenth century, corresponding with Voltaire and overhauling canon law, but his copper coinage for the Papal States was a chronic administrative headache. Chronic shortages of small-denomination coin across central Italy through the 1740s and 1750s forced repeated quattrino issues, each adjusted in weight or fabric to manage bullion costs. The MIR 2625/4 attribution places this among the later emissions of his reign, which ran until his death in 1758.