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Douzain - Clement VIII Silvio Savelli Vice-Legate
| Issuer | Comtat Venaissin |
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| Year | 1593-1594 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A bold plain cross pattée occupies the entire field, dividing it into four quadrants. In the upper two quadrants are five-petalled roses, and in the lower two quadrants are passant lions, all rendered in low relief. The surrounding legend contains the name and title of the Vice-Legate along with the mint name and date. The design is typical of French feudal ecclesiastical coinage of the late 16th century, struck on an irregular hammered flan with a beaded border. |
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| Mint | A Avignon, France (768-1693) C Carpentras, France |
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The Comtat Venaissin — a papal enclave embedded within Provence — operated under direct Holy See administration, and its coinage reflected that peculiar constitutional status: secular in appearance, ecclesiastical in authority. Silvio Savelli served as Vice-Legate during a period when Clement VIII was navigating the fraught aftermath of Henri IV's conversion to Catholicism and France's slow re-entry into papal favor. The enclave's mint at Avignon produced debased silver coinage throughout the 1590s as broader French monetary instability bled across the borders Comtat nominally did not share.