210, Lot: 460. Estimate $150. Sold for $311. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal Bullae. Innocent VI (Giovanni Battista Cybo). 1352-1362. PB Bulla (39mm, 42.66 g, 12h). (star)/INNO/CЄTIVS/P P VI/(star) in five lines; all within beaded-linear border; (Ω above ЄT and P P) / S PA S PE, bare heads of Sts. Paul and Peter, facing slightly right and left, respectively, each within beaded halo; cruciform scepter between; all within beaded-linear border. Serafini I 5 (same dies as bulla illustrated). Good VF, metal clip still intact.

From the Luparello Collection.

The son of a Roman Senator, Innocent VIII was more concerned with the selling of Church offices and the marriage arrangements of his own family than the governing and administering of the papal states, which reached the point of chaos upon his death. He did, however, issue the bull Summis desiderantes, which instigated severe measures against heresy as well as confirming Tomas de Torquemada as grand inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.