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Auction: 5010 - Ancient, English, Italian & other Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 792

Italy, Papal States, Clement XII (1730-40), Piastra, 1731, bust right, rev. Abundance and Justice seated vis-a-vis, laurel wreath above, date divided by arms in exergue (B. 2616; CNI XVII 56/6; Munt. 18), from a mount, sweated surfaces, otherwise about very fine, rare Estimate £ 450-550This was to be the last issue of Papal Piastras and was the only issue for Clement XII. His successor, Benedict XIV, instituted the new denomination of the Scudo Romano in the Piastra´s place.

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