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210, Lot: 373. Estimate $100.
Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal Medals. Pius IV (Giovannangelo de’Medici). 1559-1565. Æ Medal (30mm, 18.92 g, 1h). · PIVS · IIII · PONTIFEX · MAX, bust right, wearing mantum / · ROM-A · RESURGENS ·, Roma standing facing, head lowered left slightly left, holding spear and shield, with foot on helmet; military regalia and instruments behind. Mazio 84; Lincoln 599. Superb EF.


From the Luparello Collection.

Though his name suggests a link to the famous banking family of Florence, Pius IV was actually unrelated and born in Milan. He reopened the Council of Trent, of which he was in complete support.