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5 Baiocchi - Pius VI
| Issuer | San Severino (Papal States) |
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| Year | 1797 |
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| Currency | Scudo (1534-1835) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A veiled and crowned draped bust of the Madonna (the Virgin Mary as Holy Mother of God) facing left, rendered in moderately high relief, occupying the majority of the field. A radiant halo encircles her crowned head, and her mantle falls across her shoulders and chest. Small mint initials T·M appear in the lower exergue. The surrounding legend SANCTA DEI GENITRIX runs along the periphery within the milled border. |
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Pius VI was captured by French Revolutionary forces in 1798 and died a prisoner in Valence the following year, making his later provincial copper issues — struck as the Papal States were collapsing under Napoleonic pressure — some of the last coinage produced under his authority. San Severino, a small Marche commune under papal jurisdiction, struck this piece in 1797, the same year French troops first occupied Rome and forced the Treaty of Tolentino, stripping the papacy of substantial territory and 30 million livres in indemnity.