portrait of Pope Innocent XI, seated, by Velazquez

INNOCENT XI




(September 21, 1676 – August 12, 1689)








Pope Innocent XI, wearing the camauro AE
36 mm


Obv.:

INNOCENTIVS XI PONT MAX




Bust of the Pope, facing right, wearing the camauro, mozzetta and stole.



Astronomical constellations from the Odescalchi coat-of-arms


Rev.:


DIVINÆ NVNCIA MENTIS


Astronomical constellations which have analogues in the Odescalchi coat-of-arms: eagle, lion, patera..





Spink, 1372.
Mazio, 326.


See F. Artaud de Montor, Histoire des souverains pontifes romains VI (Paris 1851) 182-183.

 

Pope Innocent XI, wearing the camauro, 1679 AE
36 mm


Obv.:

INNOCEN · XI · PONT · M · A · IIII

· HAMERANVS ·


Bust of the Pope, facing right, wearing the camauro, mozzetta and stole.



Allegorical figure representing the Church, standing before a view of Rome

Rev.:

· IN · SAECVLVM · STABIT·


Allegorical figure, representing The Church, holding an upright Cross in left hand, and Eucharist in right. Landscape scene behind, with St. Peter's Basilica and the St.Angelo Bridge at right. Castel S. Angelo is directly behind the Cross.




Spink, 1433-1435.
Mazio, #333.

 

Pope Innocent XI, wearing a cope , 1680 AE
36 mm


Obv.:

INNOCEN • XI • PONT • MAX • A • V

· HAMERANVS · F


Bust of the Pope, facing right, wearing cope (pluviale).



Allegorical figure representing the Church, seated before a view of Rome

Rev.:

IN • COELO • SEMPER • ASSISTITVR


Figure of St. Michael the Archangel, a thunderbolt in his right hand, trampling on Satan.




Spink, 1438.
Mazio, #336.

Draws attention to the struggle in France between orthodoxy and Jansenism, some of whose propositions were contained in a volume by E. Gabriel called Specimena moralis Christianae et moralis Diabolicae, condemned on June 18, 1680. G. Novaes, Elementi Volume 11 (Roma 1822) 27.

 

Pope Innocent XI, wearing the camauro,  1684 AE
36 mm


Obv.:

INNOC · XI · PONT · M · AN · VIII ·

· HAMERANVS ·


Bust of the Pope, facing right, wearing the camauro, mozzetta and stole.



Four crowns upon a table, symbolic of the Holy Alliance against the Turks.

Rev.:

 

HABETO NOS FOEDERATOS ET SERVIEMVS TIBI

ANNO DOMINI MDCLXXXIIII


Four crowns (Poland, The Papacy, the Holy Roman Empire, and Venice) upon a table. The date of the Holy Alliance is on the front of the table: The Holy Spirit above.



Spink, 1454.
Mazio, #342.

See G. Moroni , Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica Volume 18 (Venezia 1841) 77-78. Alexis Artaud de Montor, Histoire des souverains pontifes romains VI (Paris 1851) 140-157 and p. 184 no. 12.

 

Pope Innocent XI, wearing the camauro,  1683 AE
36 mm


Obv.:

INNOCENTIVS · XI · PONT · M · A · VIII

(beneath the bust) · HAMERANVS ·


Bust of the Pope, facing left, wearing the cope and zucchetto.



Christ washing the feet of a disciple. others looking on.


Rev.


TV · DOMINVS · ET · MAG(ister)

(in exergue:) EXEMPL(um) • DEDI •VOBIS•


Christ washing the feet of a disciple. other disciples observing..

[Inscription quotes John 13. 14-15]


Spink, 1462.
Mazio, #340 (obv) + 334 (rev).

A restrike. Obverse die badly broken across left field and inscription .
A 'mule': The flan is the right size for the obverse die,
but slightly too large for the reverse die.

 

Pope Innocent XI, wearing the camauro,  1684 AE
36 mm


Obv.:

INNOC · XI · PONT · M · AN · IX

(beneath the bust) · HAMERANVS ·


Bust of the Pope, facing right, wearing the camauro, mozzetta and stole.



Allegorical figure representing the Church, seated  with a putto.


Rev.:


· DOMINVM · FORMIDABVNT · ADVERSARII · EIVS


Allegorical figure, representing The Church, holding an upright Cross in left hand, and flame in right. Putto with a tablet at left..

[Inscription quotes I Samuel 2. 10]


Spink, 1463.
Mazio, #345.


 

Pope Innocent XI, wearing the camauro,  1687 AE
36 mm


Obv.:

INNOC · XI · PONT · M · AN · XI ·

(beneath the bust) · HAMERANVS ·F·


Bust of the Pope, facing right, wearing the camauro, mozzetta and stole.



llegorical figure representing the Church,  the Cross crowned with thorns, against which the winds blow in vain.


Rev.:


· IN · PERPETVVM · CORONATA · TRIVMPHAT


A rock in the midst of the waves of the sea, a radiate Cross with a crown-of-thorns upon it. The four winds, blowing from clouds against the rock..




Spink, 1470.
Mazio, 347.





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