fwo_960623 - ITALY - PAPAL STATES - BENEDICT XIII (Pietro Francesco Orsini) Grosso 1725 Rome
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Type : Grosso
Date: 1725
Mint name / Town : Roma
Quantity minted : -
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 916,66 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,36 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire bien centré sur un joli flan. Usure légère et agréable patine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : BENEDICTVS· ·XIII. P. M. A. I..
Obverse description : Ecu aux armes du grand pontife Benoît XIIII.
Obverse translation : (Clément XI, grand pontife, première année).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AN IVBIL MDCCXXV.
Reverse description : Porte Sainte.
Historical background
ITALY - PAPAL STATES - BENEDICT XIII (Pietro Francesco Orsini)
(05/29/1724-02/21/1730)
Benedict XIII (1649-1730) succeeded Innocent XIII. He kept his monastic habits as a Benedictine monk, breaking with the decadence of his predecessors. However, the government of his states is left to his friend Niccolò Coscia who commits numerous financial embezzlements and ruins the papal treasury..
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