Papal States 1703 piastra Dav-1431
This specimen was lot 1500 in Künker sale 403 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €4,400 (about US$5,773 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"PAPST CLEMENS XI., 1700-1721. Die Münzstätte Rom. Piastra A III/1703, Rom. San Teodoro al Palatino. Stempelschneider Pier Paolo Borner. R Hübsche Patina, fast vorzüglich. (Papal States, Clement XI, 1700-21, piastra of the year 3, Rome mint. St. Theodore of the Palatine. Rare, handsome patina, about extremely fine.)"
Wikipedia comments, "San Teodoro (Italian for "Saint Theodore"), informally known as San Toto, is an early medieval church in Rome dedicated to the martyr and warrior saint Theodore of Amasea. Its use was given to the Eastern Orthodox community of Rome by Pope John Paul II in 2004. ...[It was] rebuilt by architect Carlo Fontana in 1703–1705 for Pope Clement XI who gave it to the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus." This piastra commemorating the reopening is rare.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 32.07 g, 0.917 fine silver, this specimen 31,96 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-1431; Muntoni 40; Toffanin 2261/1 (R), Ber-2377, KM 667.
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- 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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