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2 Fiorini di Camera - Julius II
| Issuer | Apostolic Chamber (Papal States) |
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| Year | 1503-1513 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Julius II issued this denomination through the Apostolic Chamber during a pontificate consumed by the so-called "warrior pope's" military campaigns to reclaim papal territories lost under Alexander VI. The Wars of the League of Cambrai dominated his reign entirely — Julius allied with France against Venice in 1508, then reversed course completely and allied with Venice against France two years later, all while personally commanding troops in the field, a spectacle that scandalized much of Catholic Europe.
The fiorino di camera was the papacy's prestige gold unit, distinct from Florentine florins by its direct papal mint authority. Erasmus, who despised Julius, wrote a savage posthumous satire imagining him refused entry at the gates of heaven.