fwo_941923 - ITALY - PAPAL STATES - BENEDICT XIV (Prospero Lambertini) Grosso an I 1740 Rome
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Type : Grosso an I
Date: 1740
Mint name / Town : Roma
Quantity minted : -
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 19,25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,39 g.
Edge : lisse
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Obverse
Obverse legend : BENEDICTVS - XIV·P·M·A·I.
Obverse description : Ecu aux armes de Benoît XIV surmonté des armes pontificales.
Reverse
Reverse legend : S. PETRVS APOST.
Reverse description : buste nimbé à droite de Saint Pierre.
Historical background
ITALY - PAPAL STATES - BENEDICT XIV (Prospero Lambertini)
(17/08/1740-3/05/1758)
Benedict XIV (1675-1758) succeeded Clement XII after a Sede Vacante of more than six months (February 6 - August 17, 1740). He was a great builder. He restored many monuments in Rome and Bologna where he was from. During the jubilee year in 1750, he excommunicated the Freemasons by the bull "Providas". Benedict XIV, a great scholar, established the ritual for beatifications and canonizations. He was also the defender of the Indians in America who suffered from bad treatment..
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