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Pio VI (Giovanni Angelico Braschi, 1717-1799).
Country: Papal States
Pope Pius VI (1775-1799)
Type: Standard circulation coin
Year: 1778 (1778-1796)
Value: ½ Scudo
Currency: Scudo (1534-1835)
Metal: Silver (.917)
Weight: 12.8 g
Diameter: 33 mm
Thickness: 1.2 mm
Grade: VF/F
Technique: Milled
Shape: Round
Orientation: Medal alignment ↑↑
References: KM# 1214, Munt# 24-28
Obverse:
Papal arms of Pius VI, his titles around with the papal year.
Lettering:
PIVS·SEXTVS -- PONT·M·A·IV·
Unabridged Legend: Pius sextus, Pontifex maximus, anno IV.
Translation: Pius VI, the greatest Pontiff, in the year four.
Reverse:
Holy Mother Church, seated and surrounded by legend with date.
Lettering: AVXILIVM • DE • SANCTO 1778
Translation: Help from the saint.
Edge:
Decorated.
Comments:
Pope Pius VI (born Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, 25 December 1717 – 29 August 1799) was head of the Roman Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 February 1775 to his death in 1799.
Pius VI condemned the French Revolution and the suppression of the Gallican Church that resulted from it. French troops commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the papal troops and occupied the Papal States in 1796. In 1798, upon his refusal to renounce his temporal power, Pius was taken prisoner and transported to France. He died eighteen months later in Valence. His reign of over two decades is the fifth-longest in papal history.
Reference : KM# 1214, Munt# 24-28
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Collection : Italian States - Pre Risorgimento (1250-1861) & Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Republic (1946-date)