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1 Scudo d'Oro - Gregory XIII
| Issuer | Papal Mint of Ancona |
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| Year | 1572-1585 |
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| Value | 1 Scudo |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of Charity standing facing, draped in classical robes, cradling an infant in her left arm while a second child clings to her right side; two additional small children stand or kneel at her feet on either side. The surrounding circular legend CHARITAS ٠ EST ٠ DEVS ٠ ANCO, meaning 'Charity is God, Ancona,' runs along the beaded outer border, identifying both the virtue depicted and the issuing mint. |
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Gregory XIII is remembered primarily for the 1582 calendar reform that bears his name, but his pontificate was equally consumed by the political fallout from the Council of Trent and the financing of Catholic League military efforts. The Ancona mint operated under papal authority as one of several provincial mints permitted to strike scudi, though output from Ancona consistently ran below that of Rome — surviving examples attributable to this mint are correspondingly scarcer than their Roman counterparts.
MIR 1200 distinguishes two die variants across the issue's span, a detail worth cross-referencing against the Berman attribution before cataloging.