Description
1 cavallo ND(1485-1486) L’Aquila, Italian States, under the pope Innocent VIII, struck during the Conspiracy of the Barons
MIR 495.
1.95 g
The son of a Roman Senator, Innocent VIII was more concerned with the selling of Church offices and the marriage arrangements of his own family than the governing and administering of the papal states, which reached the point of chaos upon his death. He did, however, issue the bull Summis desiderantes , which instigated severe measures against heresy as well as confirming Tomás de Torquemada as grand inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. (Classical Numismatic Group)
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