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1 Testone - Innocent XI MELIVS EST DARE QVAM ACCIPERE
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1684-1689 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | INNOCENTIVS XI٠PONT٠MAX (Translation: Innocent XI Supreme Pontiff) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Innocent XI — Benedetto Odescalchi — was under acute fiscal pressure throughout his pontificate, funding the Holy League's campaign against Ottoman expansion at a moment when papal finances were already strained by his predecessor's extravagances. The motto on this testone, drawn from Acts 20:35, was not decorative piety: Innocent actively restructured curial finances, suppressed sinecures, and refused to enrich his own family — a studied abnegation that made him genuinely unusual among seventeenth-century pontiffs.
He was beatified in 1956, one of the very few popes of his century to receive that distinction.