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210, Lot: 379. Estimate $100.
Sold for $195. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal Medals. Sixtus V (Felice Peretti). 1585-1590. Æ Medal (37mm, 22.43 g, 12h). Nicolò de Bonis, engraver. Dated year 6 (1590). SIXTVS · V · PONT · MAX · AN · VI, bust left, wearing zucchetto and mantle; trefoil stops / · SVPER · HANC · PETRAM ·, view of St. Peter’s Basilica; · ROMA · in exergue. Mazio 146; Lincoln 804. EF.


From the Luparello Collection.

Born to a rather poor family, Sixtus V was a reformer not only religiously, but also politically. He was open to large ideas and approached the papacy with zeal, reconstructing the administration of the papal state while also founding numerous municipal projects in Rome. Inheriting a bankrupt treasury, he administered his funds carefully and left the Vatican with a substantial surplus upon his death.