269, Lot: 576. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (prigioniero del Vaticano). Pius XI (Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti). 1922-1939. AR Medal (44mm, 35.14 g, 12h). By A. Mistruzzi. Dually-dated RY I and AD 1922 in Roman numerals. PIVS · XI · PONT · MAX · FACTVS · VIII · ID · FEBR · A · MCMXXII · PONTIFIC · A · I, Bust left, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / DOCETE · OMNES · GENTES, Christ standing left, hand raised in benediction before crowd; palm tree in background; AN · CCC · A · COND · S · CONS · FIEDI · PROPAG in exergue. Mazio 881; Rinaldi 116. UNC, toned and lustrous.