AUSTRIA Medal 1779 Brixen (Prince-Bishopric). Sede Vacante. PCGS AU

Prijsbieding

Certification details

PCGS Certification number: 39141853

Grade: Genuine - AU Details (98 - Damage)

Nominal value: Medal

Year: 1779

Diameter: 48

Name: 1779 Medal Mont-2750 Ag

Country: Brixen

Material: Silver

Major Variety: Mont-2750 Ag

Catalog Number: PCGS 607312

PCGS Catalog Number: 607312

1779, Brixen (Prince-Bishopric), Sede Vacante. Silver Medal. PCGS AU+



Mint Year: 1779
Mint Place: Munich
Reference: Zepernick 76, Montenuovo 2750.
Denomination: Sede Vacante Medal (1½ Thaler)
Condition: Certified and graded by PCGS AU (Details: Tooled!)
Weight: 43.71gm (1½ thaler weight!)
Material: Silver
Diameter: 48mm


Obverse: Heraldic tyrolean eagle with crozer crozier right horizontally across breast (arms of the Prince-Bishopric of Brixen) within inner circle.
Legend: INSIGNIA CAPITVM BRIXINENSIS.

Reverse: Inscription (CAPITVLVM / BRIXINENSE / REGNANS SEDE / VACANTE / 1779.) within inner circle. Star above and 15 shield with arms of the members of the clerical cathedral chapter around.



Sede vacante (Latin for "the seat being vacant"[a]) is the state of an episcopal see while without a bishop. In the canon law of the Catholic Church, the term is used to refer to the vacancy of any see of a particular church, but it comes into especially wide journalistic use when the see is that of the papacy.

According to both Catholic and Anglican canon law, a cathedral chapter is a college of clerics (chapter) formed to advise a bishop and, in the case of a vacancy of the episcopal see in some countries, to govern the diocese during the vacancy. In the Roman Catholic Church their creation is the purview of the pope. They can be "numbered", in which case they are provided with a fixed "prebend", or "unnumbered", in which case the bishop indicates the number of canons according to the rents. These chapters are made up of canons and other officers, while in the Church of England chapters now include a number of lay appointees. In some Church of England cathedrals there are two such bodies, the lesser and greater chapters, which have different functions. The smaller body usually consists of the residentiary members and is included in the larger one. Originally, it referred to a section of a monastic rule that was read out daily during the assembly of a group of canons or other clergy attached to a cathedral or collegiate church. Later it came to be applied to the group of clergy itself.



The Prince-Bishopric of Brixen (German: Hochstift Brixen, Fürstbistum Brixen, Bistum Brixen) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire in the present-day Italian province of South Tyrol. It should not be confused with the larger Catholic diocese, over which the prince-bishops exercised only the ecclesiastical authority of an ordinary bishop. The bishopric in the Eisack/Isarco valley was established in the 6th century and gradually received more secular powers. It gained imperial immediacy in 1027 and remained an Imperial Estate until 1803, when it was secularised to Tyrol. The diocese however existed until 1964, and is now part of the Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen.

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