It's been almost two weeks since the last time I played with my phone camera, let's see if it still works ^_^
Ok, not bad ^_^
As you can see, today I chose another of my silver stamp copies. I had no idea who that geek that was but the engraved text "poste vaticane" on the front and ""Pius XX"" hinted it was a child molester a pope or something.
After a bit of googling I did find how the original stamp looked like
And sure enough, the portrait depicts a pope, Pope Pius XII (1939-1958):
Public Domain via Wikipedia
Sure enough, he chose a tough time to be a pope. At least I would stay away from the position of being most of Europe's spiritual leader during world war 2. After doing a bit of reading on him it seems like the Allies expected more action from him...And the Nazis considered him an Allied sympathizer 😅 He also took some anti-commy action issuing the Decree against Communism. This essentially ordered that all commy Catholics were to be excommunicated as apostates from the Christian faith. Heh. The 40s were fun times 😂 Here's a link to wikipedia if you want to learn more about him.
As for the actual stamp, it was part of a series issued by the Vatican in March 7, 1949. The set consisted of 11 stamps featuring images of Roman basilicas and one stamp (this one) depicting Pope Pius XII. A stamp set that many consider to be one of the most important and beautiful ever issued by the Vatican
Here is how the whole set looked like if you are curious
Not bad, I actually recognize some of these places :)
The set pics above are from this site which also has some brief info on each stamp in case you want to do some further reading!
Here's a quick rundown of the places featured in the rest of the set:
- Basilica of St. Agnes
- Basilica of St. Clement
- Basilica of St. Praxedes
- Basilica of St. Mary in Cosmedin
- Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem
- Basilica of St. Sebastian
- Basilica of St. Lawrence
- Basilica of St. Paul
- Basilica of St. Mary Major
- Basilica of St. Peter
- High Basilica of St. John Lateran
Ok friends, I think this concludes today's post!
Hope you enjoyed yet another silver piece from my collection and maybe even learnt something new. I know I did :)
Silver Spot Price
It's been quite a while since the last timei checked the price of silver. Let's see how it's doing
Via Google search
Yeah, still in the 0.7 range per grams although it's close to breaking 0.80 this time. I guess I'd better buy a few tons to help pump the price 🐋🐳
Re-blog Lottery
Here's a quick treat if you reached all the way down here. I will be giving 5 Hbi (total of 10) to two lucky winners tomorrow, just re-blog the post for a chance to enter. No vote required 🤗
Fun Silver Posts
Enjoyed the post? Here is some more fun silver/monetary content I have written in the past that you might enjoy:
- The country that uses plastic coins!
- The bizarre coins of Cook Islands
- Infographic: What Type of Silver Whale are you?
- My silver pocket piece
- My favorite piece from the stack
- The 10 Million Dollar Coin
- This is where gold really comes from!
- That's one big nugget!
- The Ten Thousand Dollar Bill ?!?!
- Biggest Gold Coin Ever
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