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fwo_559422 - ITALY - PAPAL STATES - PAUL III (Alessandro Farnese) Écu d’or n.d. Rome
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 650.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 650.00 €
Type : Écu d’or
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : gold
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 3,28 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
La monnaie est frappée sur un flan légèrement voilé et irrégulier
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : PAVLVS III . PONT. MAX.
Obverse description : Écu de Paul III sous deux clefs croisées et une tiare pontificale.
Obverse translation : (Paul III, grand pontife).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S. PAVLVS VAS - ELECTIONIS - (LIS).
Reverse description : Saint-Paul debout, nimbé.
Historical background
ITALY - PAPAL STATES - PAUL III (Alessandro Farnese)
(13/10/1534-09/11/1549)
On October 13, 1534, then sixty-six years old, Paul III was unanimously elected pope and was consecrated on the following November 3. In 1535 he appointed Michelangelo first architect. In 1538, he attended the interview in Nice between Charles V and François I. It was in 1541, under his pontificate, Michelangelo completed the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. He died on November 9, 1549.
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