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1 Quattrino - Pius VI Large Arms, Striped field
| Issuer | Bologna Mint (Papal States) |
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| Year | 1778-1779 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#268, Berger#3082, Munt#280, MIR#2855/18 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pius VI inherited the papal finances in a state of chronic disorder, and his early coinage reforms in Bologna reflected an urgent need to rationalize the subsidiary copper supply across the Legation. The "striped field" variety — distinguished by horizontal lines in the shield's background — emerged from a brief die experiment at the Bologna mint, accounting for its scarcity relative to the plain-field type catalogued under the same reign.
Bologna operated as a semi-autonomous mint within the Papal States, and local die-cutters occasionally introduced decorative variations without explicit Roman sanction.