257, Lot: 741. Estimate $150. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ITALY, Papale (Stato della Città del Vaticano). Pius XI (Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti). 1922-1939. AR Medal (44mm, 37.10 g, 12h). By Mistruzzi. Triply-dated RY VIII, 1879, and 1929
in Roman numerals. Bust left, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium; olive branch below / Chalice with symbolic representation of the Host; behind, façades of the
Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano and the Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano. Mazio 888; Rinaldi 123. UNC, toned and lustrous.