Papal States (1714) giulio KM-755
This specimen was lot 1529 in Künker sale 403 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €600 (about US$787 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"PAPST CLEMENS XI., 1700-1721. Die Münzstätte Rom. Giulio AN XIV (1713/1714), Rom. Mit Wappen des Presidente della zecca, Monsieur Fattinello Fattinelli, auf der Rückseite. Prachtvolle Patina, fast Stempelglanz. (Papal States, Clement XI, 1700-21, giulio of year 14, Rome mint, with the mintmaster's arms on the reverse. Outstanding patina, about uncirculated.)"
Berman lists fifteen different guilii for this pope; Berman-2420 depicts the pope's arms on the obverse and a seated St. Peter on the reverse. It was struck during year XIV. The giulio was ten baiocchi, while the piastra, the Italian equivalent of the German thaler, was 105 baiocchi (3½ testone).
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.05 g, 0.917 fine silver, this specimen 3,08 g.
Catalog reference: Muntoni 116; Toffanin 2303/1 (R), Ber-2420, KM 755.
- 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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- (1712) giulio, bust obverse/arms reverse
- (1714) grosso, year XV
- (1714) giulio, year XIV, St. Paul standing
- (1715) piastra
- (1717) giulio, PRVDENTIA PRETIOSIOR EST ARGENTO
- (1717) giulio, St. Peter standing
- Coins and currency dated 1714