(sold for $68.0)

1649, Vatican, Pope Innocent X. Scarce Silver Grosso Coin. KM-Unlisted date!

Mint Place: Rome
Denomination: Grosso
Mint Year: not dated (probably 1645)
Condition: Struck on an unusual cob-like planchet, otherwise VF-XF!
Reference: Berman 1835, KM-213 var. (this date 1649 = AN V not listed!)
Diameter: 20mm
Material: Silver
Weight: 1.81gm

Obverse: Standing figure of Saint Paul facing.
Legend: . S. PAVLVS . - ALMA . ROMA

Reverse: Coat-of-arms of the pope, topped by crossed keys and papal crown (tiara).
Legend: INNOC . X . - P . M . A . V .

Authenticity unconditionally guaraneed.

Pope Innocent X (6 May 1574 – 7 January 1655), born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (or Pamphili), was Pope from 1644 to 1655. Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, he graduated from the Collegio Romano and followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle Girolamo Pamphilj as auditor of the Rota, and like him, attaining the dignity of Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Eusebio, in 1629. Trained as a lawyer, he succeeded Pope Urban VIII (1623–44) on 15 September 1644, as one of the most politically shrewd pontiffs of the era, who much increased the temporal power of the Vatican[citation needed]. He was a great-great-great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI.