Show the popo pope recently entertained tho the members of 0 tile sacred college with the recital of how a gold coin had bad boen been given to him as a jubilee girt gift by the diocese of acqua acqui this loin coin was discovered in 1898 while excava tjong were being made for or the fou aunda llla tion of a new church at acquin acqui upon it was to be tho the only coin in existence of the period of innocent IX tho the diocese of acquin acqui was unable to pay the architect who nho had drawn tho the plans plana for tho the new chumil so it gave him tho the coin with the standing that if he sold bold it for more than 1200 the ho amount of ills his bill the surplus should be returned to the diocese gatei the clergy col lecter the 1200 1 bought the coin and presented it to the pope this coin was MRS the only one lacking to complete the vatican collection of coins issued under all the popes |