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1 Quattrino - Pius VII Papal year, large keys
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1816-1821 |
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| Currency | Scudo (1534-1835) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | PIVS SEPTIMVS PONTIFEX MAXIMVS MDCCCXVI |
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Pius VII spent nearly six years as Napoleon's prisoner — first in Savona, then Fontainebleau — before being released in 1814 and returning to Rome. The small copper issues that followed his restoration carried explicit symbols of papal authority partly as a deliberate reassertion of temporal power after that humiliation. The "large keys" variety of KM#1276.1 is distinguished from its companion type by the scale of the crossed keys on the reverse die, a detail that creates two collectible varieties within the same date range.