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5 Baiocchi - Pius VI
| Issuer | Papal States Mint - Gubbio |
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| Year | 1797 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#178, MIR#2944, Munt#351, Berman#3106 |
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| Reverse description | Veiled and nimbate bust of the Virgin Mary facing left, depicted in a devotional manner with hands clasped in prayer, draped in a veil and mantle. The nimbus (halo) is rendered in relief around the head. The surrounding legend SANCTA DEI GENITRIX encircles the bust, with the engraver's initials T.M. appearing in the field. The design is enclosed within a milled outer border consistent with the obverse. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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By 1797, Pius VI was watching the Papal States collapse in real time. Napoleon's Italian campaign had already stripped Ferrara, Bologna, and the Romagna from papal control under the Treaty of Tolentino signed that February, which also extracted 30 million livres and hundreds of artworks from the Holy See. The Gubbio mint, operating in Umbria, continued striking copper coinage even as the temporal power of the papacy entered what would prove to be its terminal phase — Pius himself would die a French prisoner in Valence two years later.