5 Bolognini - Clement XII Cartouche

Clement XII — Lorenzo Corsini — was nearly blind by the time this issue was struck, governing the Papal States in his eighties from a wheelchair. Bologna, one of the wealthiest legations in the papal system, maintained a semi-autonomous mint with its own traditions, and the bolognino denominations it produced were often struck in parallel with Roman issues rather than under direct Roman supervision.

The three Chimienti varieties catalogued for this type reflect sequential die changes across the two-year production window — not a redesign, but the ordinary attrition of working dies at a busy provincial mint.