Macerata (1404-47) bolognino
This specimen was lot 32554 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2024), where it sold for $408. The catalog description[1] noted, "ITALY. Macerata. Bolognino, ND (1404-47). PCGS MS-62. An incredible survivor of the type with so much originality, one would think it was made recently. SCARCE in any grade, but downright RARE in this level of preservation." The bolognino was a small silver coin, first struck by the city of Bologna, home of the famous sausage. Macerata was never officially independent of the Vatican but often assumed self rule during one of the many periods of anarchy in the Papal States. The town would not reappear numismatically until 1797-98, when the popes operated a temporary mint there.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, about 17 mm diameter, about 0.95 g.
Catalog reference: Biaggi-1095.
- Francesco Muntoni, Le Monete del Papi e Degli Stati Pontifici, 4 vols. Rome: P & P Santamaria, 1973.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, May 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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