CLEMENT XIV

	Æ 50 mm Obv.: CLEMENS • XIV • GANGANELLVS • VADEN • PONT • M • Bust of the pope, r., wearing camauro, mozetta and stole
	Rev: FACTVS • EST • PRINCIPATVS • SVPER • HVMERVM • EIV(S) Jesus stumbles, carrying his cross on his right shoulder. Mazio, 500. Spink 1905.

	Æ Obv.:
	Rev: DEDIT • GLORIAM • IN • LOCO • ISTO Church of SS. XII Apostoli. In exergue: AN • MDCCLXIX The Church of the XII Apostles had been restored between 1702 and 1714 by C. and F. Fontana. From 1762 to 1769, the Pope had Been Cardinal Priest of this title. Mazio, 498. Spink 1910.

AG ? 45 mm Obv.: CLEMENS • XIV • PONTIF • MAX . Pope Clement XIV, r., wearing camauro, mozetta and stole, hand raised in blessing gesture.

Rev: NVNQVAM • NOVI • VOS • DISCEDITE • A • ME • OMNES On the left, SS. Paul and Peter and Jesus Christ; on the right, three Jesuits in cassocks, cloaks and birettas, walking away from Christ. In exergue: EXAVG • SOC • IESV • MEMOR • | MDCCLXXIII | PS • C.XVII. 23 After fifteen years of dispute and agitation, the Society of Jesus was suppressed by the Papal Brief, Dominus ac Redemptor noster, August 16, 1773. Spink 1929 [cf. 1930, smaller module].

This is not a papal medal, but a specimen of anti-Jesuit propaganda..

F. Artaud de Montor, Histoire des souverains pontifes romains Volume VII (Paris 1851), p. 397: "Cette médaille insultante ne peut pas avoir été frappée à Rome. Le travail est différent de celui de Hamerani: elle peut avoir été frappée en Allemagne, par ordre de quelque agent de Pombal.... Cette médaille est un acte répréhensible, qui doit être réproche à ceux qui ont remporté la victoire. Frappér à terre est toujours la plus insigne làcheté.

Artaud is surely correct as to the style, and he draws attention to the inability to discover the reverse legend in Psalm 117. 23. He does not find the quotation at all, but it does appear in the gospel of Matthew 7. 23: et tunc confitebor illis quia numquam novi vos discedite a me qui operamini iniquitatem. The papal mint is unlikely to have made such an egregious error.