fwo_920667 - COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - CLEMENT VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini) Douzain 1599 Avignon
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Type : Douzain
Date: 1599
Mint name / Town : Avignon
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 2,17 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Présence de petits éclatements. Des faiblesses sont également visibles
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CLEMENS VIII. PONT. MAX..
Obverse description : Écu pontifical surmonté de la tiare pontificale, accosté de A - A.
Obverse translation : (Clément VIII, grand pontif).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + OCT. CAR. D. AQVAVIVA. LEG. AVE 1599.
Reverse description : Croix échancrée, cantonnée aux 1 et 4 de la croix de Jérusalem, aux 2 et 3 d’un lion.
Reverse translation : (Octave, cardinal de Aquaviva, légat d’Avignon, 1599).
Commentary
Frappe au nom du légat pontifical le cardinal Ottavio Acquaviva.
Historical background
COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - CLEMENT VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini)
(30/01/1592-3/03/1605)
Legate Cardinal Octave Aquaviva
Clement VIII was elected pope at the age of 46 and published the Vulgate begun by Sixtus V. After the conversion of Henri IV and his return to the Catholic faith ("Paris is well worth a mass") in 1594, the pope lifted the excommunication which weighed on him and tried to rebuild the union of Christian princes against Protestantism but he died in 1605.
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