Papal States (1711) testone

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Künker sale 403, lot 1521

This specimen was lot 1521 in Künker sale 403 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €1,200 (about US$1,575 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"PAPST CLEMENS XI., 1700-1721. Die Münzstätte Rom. Testone A XII (1711/1712), Rom. Mit Wappen des Presidente della zecca, Monsieur Fattinello Fattinelli, auf der Rückseite. Vorzüglich. (Papal States, Clement XI, 1700-21, testone of the year 12, Rome mint, with the mintmaster's arms on the reverse. Extremely fine.)"

Berman lists fifteen different testone for this pope; this type was struck years XI-XII (1711-13). The reverse motto is taken from Ecclesiastes 8:3: "multos enim perdidit aurum et argentum, et usque ad cor regum extendit et convertit." (For gold and silver hath destroyed many, and hath reached even to the heart of kings, and perverted them.) The testone was thirty baiocchi, while the piastra, the Italian equivalent of the German thaler, was 105 baiocchi (3½ testone).

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 9.16 g, 0.917 fine silver, this specimen 9,14 g.

Catalog reference: Muntoni 69; Toffanin 2292/2 (R), Ber-2401, KM 741.

Source:

  • Berman, Allen G., Papal Coins, South Salem, NY: Attic Books, 1991.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • Francesco Muntoni, Le Monete del Papi e Degli Stati Pontifici, 4 vols. Rome: P & P Santamaria, 1973.
  • [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 403: Coins and Medals of the Popes - The significant collection of a southwest German entrepreneur, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.

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