Papal States 1691 testone KM-541

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Heritage sale 3082, lot 34354
photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries

This specimen was lot 34354 in Heritage sale 3082 (New York, January 2020), where it sold for $750. The catalog description[1] noted, "Italy: Papal States. Innocent XII Testone Anno I (1691) MS64 NGC, Rome mint. As 'blast-white' as is likely conceivable for an issue of the late 17th-century, and one which appears very near to how it must have when it first came out of the mint." Berman lists twelve different testone for this pope; Berman-2253 has the reverse motto "TANQVAM/LVTVM/AESTIMABITVR" ("[Money] is esteemed as dirt"). It was struck during year I. The testone was thirty baiocchi, while the piastra, the Italian equivalent of the German thaler, was 105 baiocchi (3½ testone). Other testone for 1691 include KM 540.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 9.16 g, silver, 0.917 fine.

Catalog reference: KM 541, Ber-2253.

Source:

  • Berman, Allen G., Papal Coins, South Salem, NY: Attic Books, 1991.
  • Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
  • [1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and Sam Spiegel, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Online Auction 3082, featuring the Caranett Collection, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2019.
  • Francesco Muntoni, Le Monete del Papi e Degli Stati Pontifici, 4 vols. Rome: P & P Santamaria, 1973.

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