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Super Hanc Petram The Architectural Medals of the Vatican Basilica and the Homage of the Pilgrims to St. Peter

Mt.TsP.Est.RegnoTeutonico.22

Denier of Adalbero IV di Metz (1090-1117), found around the tomb of St. Peter, 1090-1117, billon, 16.90 mm, 0.82 g.

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Pilgrims who visited the Constantinian basilica came at the foot of the high altar and left their offerings on the floor to mark their presence. Sometimes it happened that some of those coins accidentally turned up, through the cracks of the floor, around St. Peter’s tomb, which was right under the high altar.