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From the Magnaguti Collection

271, Lot: 167. Estimate $50000.
Sold for $45000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Beatus Innocentius XI (Benedetto Odescalchi). 1676-1689. AV Quadrupla (32mm, 13.40 g, 12h). Rome mint. Dated RY 1 (1676/7). INNOCEN · XI · PONT · MAX · AN · I ·, bust right, wearing camauro, mozzetta, and pallium / SVB · TVVM · · PRÆSIDIVM, The Virgin Mary seated facing within portico, holding Holy Infant on lap, who is raising hand in benediction and holding globus cruciger; around, Ss. Lorenzo, Agostino, Stefano, and Francesco d’Assisi; all wearing nimbus crown; in exergue, coat-of-arms between RO MÆ. CNI XVI 6; Muntoni 5/1; Serafini 5; Berman 2069; Friedberg 153; KM 395. EF. Very rare. Wonderful style.


Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 14 (9 October 1998), lot 1123; Kunst und Münzen XXI (14 May 1980), lot 515; Count Alessandro Magnaguti Collection (Part XI, Santamaria, 4 June 1956), lot 255.