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1 Testone - Urban VIII Radiant Madonna - Arms
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1642-1643 |
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| Value | 1 Teston (0.30) |
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| Obverse description | Papal coat of arms of Urban VIII (Barberini family) displayed on an ornate cartouche surmounted by the papal tiara and crossed keys of Saint Peter. The shield bears the distinctive three bees of the Barberini heraldic device. Elaborate baroque scrollwork and foliate ornaments frame the escutcheon. The surrounding legend reads the pope's name, title, and regnal year in abbreviated Latin. |
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| Mintage | ND (1642) - A. XX - 1642 - A. XX - ND (1643) - A. XXI - |
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Urban VIII — born Maffeo Barberini — was elected pope in 1623 and proved one of the most politically entangled pontiffs of the seventeenth century, backing France against Spain in the Thirty Years' War and triggering the ruinous Castro War of 1641–1644 through a territorial dispute with the Farnese. These testonì were struck directly within that conflict period, when papal finances were under acute strain and Barberini nepotism had become a scandal across Catholic Europe.
The Berman range 1726–1728 reflects documented die variants across the two-year emission, catalogued primarily by reverse arm configurations.