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Numismatic Auction 33  26 May 2015
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Lot 321

Estimate: 75 USD
Price realized: 61 USD
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Papal States. Paul V. 1605-1621. AR 1/2 grosso (16 mm, 0.59 g, 7 h). Rome mint, ND. Papal arms / St. Paul standing; mint master's mark below right. Berman 1576. Fine, reverse slightly double struck.

It was Paul V who censured the humanist astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1616 for espousing Copernican theory.
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