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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;okbustchaser, post: 2083509, member: 72642&quot;]After the death (or rarely, the resignation) of the Pope the change of leadership for the Roman Catholic Church invariably means a brief time of interregnum – what is called the Sede Vacante. The Latin term simply means “the empty seat,” that seat being the throne of St. Peter. But during the Sede Vacante, the Mint of Vatican City continues to issue coins. These do not show an image of the past pope, however. The rule is that they show the crossed keys and umbrella that are the arms of the Vatican chamberlain, more commonly known as the Camerlengo.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Are you certain of the date 1770?&nbsp; There was no interregnum that year but was in 1769.</p><p><a href="http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1769.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1769.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1769.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin would represent the period between the death of Pope Clement XIII and the election of Clement XIV.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit to add:&nbsp; Christian has given a better answer.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t know that individual dioceses issued Sede Vacante coins as well as the Vatican.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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