Papal States 1696 testone KM-596

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Künker sale 403, lot 1476

This specimen was lot 1476 in Künker sale 403 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €750 (about US$984 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"PAPST INNOCENZ XII., 1691-1700. Die Münzstätte Rom. Testone A VI/1696, Rom. Mit gerolltem Rahmen, Blattwerk und Engelskopf und dem Wappen des Presidente della zecca, Monsieur Maffeo Farsetti, auf der Rückseite. Vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. Exemplar der Slg. Klaus Bronny, Auktion Münzen & Medaillen Deutschland 26, Stuttgart 2008, Nr. 506. (Papal States, Innocent XII, 1691-1700, testone of the year 6, 1696, Rome mint. With rolled frame, foliage and angel's head and the arms of the Presidente della Zecca, Monsieur Maffeo Farsetti, on the reverse. Extremely fine to uncirculated)"

Berman lists ten different testone for this pope. Many varieties also come without date; none are rare. The testone was thirty baiocchi, while the piastra, the Italian equivalent of the German thaler, was 105 baiocchi (3½ testone). The reverse motto, "ROGATE·EA/QVAE·AD·PACEM/SVNT", means "They requested peace". Another testone of 1696 (KM 594) uses this design but with a curved inscription on the reverse.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 9.59 g, 0.917 fine silver, this specimen 9,07 g.

Catalog reference: Muntoni 48; Toffanin 2148/4, Ber-2251, KM 596.

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.
  • 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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