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2 Baiocchi With mintmark
| Issuer | Roman Republic |
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| Year | 1798-1799 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination DVE / BAIOC / CHI is inscribed in three lines across the central field, within an ornate wreath composed of oak branches with acorns and leaves tied at the base. The wreath varies by die variety and may include ribbons, knots, or berries depending on the specific emission. A mint mark, typically R for Rome, appears below the wreath or at the base. The whole is enclosed within a toothed border consistent with the obverse. The plain, text-focused reverse is characteristic of small copper coinage of the Roman Republic period. |
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| Mint | Rome Mint |
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The Roman Republic of 1798–1799 was a French-client state born from Napoleon's Italian campaigns, replacing papal temporal authority after Pius VI was taken prisoner and eventually died in French captivity at Valence. This copper issue belongs to a currency reform that explicitly abolished the old papal monetary system — the baiocco itself was retained as a unit, but reauthorized under republican auspices, a pointed act of symbolic repudiation. The republic lasted barely seventeen months before Neapolitan and later Austrian forces restored papal rule.
The mintmark variants catalogued across Munt#89/91–95 and Pag#33–35 reflect production across a compressed and chaotic window, making die-matched pairs genuinely difficult to assemble.