Vatican City 1973 50 Lira - And More

Hi again.

Thank you very much for your response. I appreciate the feedback and I'm happy to take any corrections. I keep doing passes of the page and finding things to fix. Everything is written in html from scratch which sounds impressive but you really only need to learn about 20 commands and then there is a lot of cutting and pasting and tweaking (which is how it's so easy for errors to creep in).

I find doing this has a number of benefits. It really forces (probably the wrong word) me to learn about the coin and look at the detail and the background of the imagery.

I can display the coins how I want, and include the details or links as I want as well rather than being forced into a preset template.

Being a website I can call it up on any device from anywhere and check what I have and don't have. It can be frustrating to be on a trip to a music festival at a Viking burial ground in Norway and an alert comes up that an auction site has a coin you might want and you need to check if you have it or not. Lets face it - we've all done it :)

Thanks also for pointing out that 1603 Quattrino. I hadn't in fact noticed that at all. Always a very nice surprise to find a bit of a scarce one. So many corrections to make...

Please do let me know if you have displayed your collection somewhere. I'm always happy to see others collections and learn something.

Nice collection Bacchus2. Some of your KM numbers appear incorrect though. Same number against multiple coins and an extra 1 slipped in front of a few of the numbers, KM1147, instead of KM#147 etc. Not being picky, just want to help you make it best it can be.

That's exactly the reason I built my CCF gallery. Doesn't matter where I was, I could pull it up and see what I had. (it's maxed out now though, so I can't add any more)

Here's a coin I just played in the 20 questions game.
I note you don't have this one.

One more edit, and one more attribution "assist"...

The first Innocent XII coin (the 1/2 bolognino struck in Bologna) has Background comments (on Gubbio) that perhaps were intended to go with the Innocent XI quattrino.

The Innocent XII 1/2 baiocco I believe is KM-53 (Gubbio) https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide...duid-1497811
... and ND (undated). The undated variety has legend on the obverse ending in PONT MAX, which matches yours. The ones that bear a regnal year have legend like PON M A (year). As for the reverse, there is only one variant with the 4-line inscription as shown on Numista (Anno II). All the others have the 3-line inscription like yours.

If I search Numista for other 1/2 baiocco coins of Innocent XII, I come up empty (likewise if I search on mezzo baiocco in acsearch).

So I think Gubbio is the only option.

It is the Pacca family coat of arms on the coin. Bartolomeo Pacca was the cardinal camerlengo who presided over the conclave (and the coinage) during the Sede Vacante of 1823.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Pacca
Above it is the umbraculum which replaces the papal tiara during a sede vacante.

I think the Pacca coat of arms is a sort of riff on the ages of man: a young warrior, an old warrior, and bones (a dead warrior). But you can dig on Pacca heraldry (no pun intended) and probably get a better answer.

Last but not least, that is really a lovely coin.

I admit to being pretty ignorant about heraldry, and only reporting what I find elsewhere.

Maybe Italian nobility approached their coats of arms differently than other parts of Europe .

I think the one that shows up most often on Papal States coins is the Medici arms (six balls); Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV and Leo XI were all from that family.