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Muraiola of 8 Baiocchi - Pius VI
| Issuer | Perugia (Papal States) |
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| Year | 1797 |
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| Currency | Scudo (1534-1835) |
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| Obverse description | Within a raised inner circle, the mint name PERV / GIA is inscribed across the field in two lines, with the date 1797 below. A circular legend surrounds the inner circle, reading ANNO XXIII PIVS SEXTVS P . M . SEXTVS, denoting the pontifical year of Pope Pius VI. The entire design is enclosed by a boldly reeded outer border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Pius VI issued this emergency billon coinage for Perugia in the shadow of Napoleon's Italian campaign. The Treaty of Tolentino, signed in February 1797, stripped the Papal States of significant territory and extracted a ruinous financial indemnity, forcing local mints to produce debased subsidiary coinage to keep commerce functioning. Perugia's issues of this type were strictly provisional — the political situation that produced them was already unraveling before the dies cooled.