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Double Giulio - Clement XIII Bust
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 1760 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | An allegorical figure personifying the Holy Mother Church (Ecclesia) seated to the right upon clouds, draped in flowing robes, and holding the Papal Keys in her hand as a symbol of ecclesiastical authority. The composition is framed by the Latin motto above and the date below, all within a milled denticle border consistent with the obverse. |
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| Edge | Embossed leaves |
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Clement XIII — born Carlo della Torre Rezzonico, elected in 1758 — spent much of his pontificate in an increasingly desperate defense of the Jesuit order against suppression campaigns mounted by France, Spain, Portugal, and Naples simultaneously. The Double Giulio was a workhorse denomination of the papal monetary system, and issues from his reign are historically inseparable from that political siege: by 1773, his successor Clement XIV would be pressured into dissolving the Society of Jesus entirely, a capitulation Rezzonico refused to his death.