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1/2 Bolognino - Clement XI
| Issuer | Papal States (Bologna Mint) |
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| Year | 1715-1720 |
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| Currency | Scudo (1534-1835) |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts the rampant lion of Bologna facing left, a bold and stylised heraldic beast rendered in relief against a flat field, with the date partially visible within or below the lion's tail. The circular peripheral legend reads MEZZO BOLOGNINO, identifying the denomination, and is enclosed within a beaded border consistent with the obverse. The overall style reflects the crude but characteristic hammered technique employed at the Bologna mint during the pontificate of Clement XI. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Clement XI spent much of his pontificate navigating the fallout from the War of the Spanish Succession, during which Bologna — technically a papal city — found itself economically pressured by competing French and Habsburg interests. Small copper issues like this half bolognino were workhorses of local commerce, struck at the Bologna mint under its own administration with only nominal Roman oversight. The Bologna mint maintained a degree of operational autonomy unusual among papal satellite mints, which accounts for the range of die varieties documented by Chimienti across this five-year window.