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5 Baiocchi - Pius VI
| Issuer | Papal States Mint - Gubbio |
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| Year | 1797 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays a three-line Latin inscription within an inner circle, with a small star or ornament above the text. The denomination and mint name are presented in bold capital letters reading BAIOC / CINQVE / GVBBIO across the centre of the coin. The surrounding legend, separated by a raised inner border, carries the papal title and regnal year. The date 1797 appears in the exergue below the inner circle. The entire design is enclosed within a milled or grained outer border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.