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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Papal Mint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Cola di Rienzi, during his brief tribunate, likewise struck coins, with the inscription: N. Papal coins reappeared with the removal of the pontifical Court to Avignon, although there exists a single coin that is referred to Benedict XI (1303-4), with the legend COITAT. |
 | | Finally, in 1665, Alexander VII moved it to the rear of the apse of St. Peter's, where it is at present. |
 | | From the sixteenth century, the engravers, also, put their ciphers on the coins; among these engravers may be named Benvenuto Cellini, Francesco Raibolini, called il Francia (Bologna), the four Hamerani, Giulio Romano (trident), Cavaliere Lucenti, Andrea Perpenti, etc. Until the time of Pius VI, the dies for the mint remained the property of the engravers. |
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