Italian States, Stato Pontificio (Papal States). Time of Alexander VII AR Luigino. Avignon, AD 1662. ★EX✤MONTIBVS✤PAX✤ORIETVR✤1662, quartered Papal arms within octolobe / FLAVIVS•CARD•GHISIVS•LEGA•AVE•, bust of Papal Legate Cardinal Flavio Chigi to right, mintmark below. Muntoni 44; MIR 1864/1; Berman 1958; Poey d'Avant 4455; KM 94 (Papal States). 2.15g, 20mm, 9h.

Good Very Fine; areas of flat strike. Rare.

From a private UK collection.

Flavio Chigi was appointed Cardinal Legate of Avignon in 1657 by his uncle Pope Alexander VII, and during his tenure luigini were struck in the name of the Pontiff, in the name of both Alexander VII and Chigi, and in the name of the Cardinal alone such as the present piece.