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1/2 Baiocco - Benedict XIV Giovanni Battista Barni Legate
| Issuer | Papal States - Ferrara Mint |
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| Year | 1749-1751 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the ornate crowned papal coat of arms of Pope Benedict XIV, rendered in a baroque interlaced cartouche style with elaborate foliate scrollwork surrounding the shield. A papal tiara surmounts the device at the top. The circular Latin legend BENEDICT XIV P M A X runs along the coin's periphery, separated from the central device by a beaded inner border. The overall style is characteristic of mid-eighteenth-century Italian ecclesiastical coinage, with bold relief on an irregularly shaped flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (1749) - A٠X - ND (1750) - A٠XI - 1751 - - |
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Benedict XIV — Prospero Lambertini, the Bologna-born pope widely regarded as the most intellectually able of the eighteenth century — appointed Giovanni Battista Barni as legate to Ferrara during a period of sustained administrative pressure on the papal legations. The Ferrara mint had operated under legatine authority since the city's devolution to the Holy See in 1598, and issues of this type were produced to meet local copper circulation needs rather than any broader monetary programme.
The Munt#343-349 range reflects multiple die marriages across the three-year emission — not a single issue, but a sequence of small runs.