Damasus II held the papacy for just 23 days in 1048 before dying — one of the shortest reigns in papal history, almost certainly cut short by the same malarial conditions that plagued the Palatine hill residences. The circumstances were sufficiently abrupt that no formal papal acts survive from his tenure.
The DRC's ongoing series of ecclesiastical silver issues, produced under licensing arrangements common to small-economy mints in the 2000s, targets the collector market exclusively. None circulated.
Damasus II held the papacy for just 23 days in 1048 before dying — one of the shortest reigns in papal history, almost certainly cut short by the same malarial conditions that plagued the Palatine hill residences. The circumstances were sufficiently abrupt that no formal papal acts survive from his tenure.
The DRC's ongoing series of ecclesiastical silver issues, produced under licensing arrangements common to small-economy mints in the 2000s, targets the collector market exclusively. None circulated.