Live auction - fwo_340818 - ITALY - PAPAL STATES - PIUS IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti) 20 Lire an XXV 1870 Rome
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| Estimate : | 420 € |
| Price : | 360 € |
| Maximum bid : | 384 € |
| End of the sale : | 03 December 2014 17:43:18 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : 20 Lire an XXV
Date: an XXI
Mint name / Town : Roma
Quantity minted : 24100
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,46 g.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire nettoyé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : PIVS. IX. PON. - MAX. AN. XXV.
Obverse description : Buste du Saint-Père, Pie IX à gauche ; au-dessous, motif floral.
Obverse translation : (Pie IX souverain pontife, vingt-quatrième année).
Reverse
Reverse legend : *STATO* PONTIFICIO*/ 20/ LIRE/ 1870.
Reverse description : Au centre dans une couronne composite.
Reverse translation : (État Pontifical).
Commentary
L’année 1866 marque l'adoption du système décimal complet avec la Lire comme unité monétaire et le rattachement des États de l'Église au système de l'Union Latine créé en 1864. Ces pièces furent fabriquées entre 1866 et 1870.
Historical background
ITALY - PAPAL STATES - PIUS IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti)
(06/16/1846-02/7/1878)
Pius IX (1792-1878), elected after a vacancy of only fifteen days, had the longest pontificate of the 19th century. After a happy start, showing in him, if not a liberal, at least an innovator between 1846-1848, the Roman revolution threw him back into conservatism. After the February Revolution in France, unrest spread throughout Europe and even Rome. Faced with the refusal of Pius IX to declare war on Austria, the republic was proclaimed on February 9 at the instigation of Mazzini and Garibaldi. On June 1, an expeditionary force was sent to Rome to restore order. The French seized the city on July 3 and restored Pius IX. He could not prevent Victor Emmanuel II from achieving Italian unity and found himself isolated from 1861. Rome resisted for another nine years before falling into the hands of the King of Italy and becoming the capital in 1870. Pius IX saw the nine last years of his life considering himself a prisoner of Italian power.
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