Treaty of Rijswijk Commemorative
Ex Martinori Collection

271, Lot: 168. Estimate $7500. Sold for $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Innocentius XII (Antonio Pignatelli). 1691-1700. AV Doppia (25mm, 6.71 g, 12h). Rome mint. Dated RY 6 (1696/7). INNO · XII · P · M · A · VI ·, bust right, wearing camauro, mozzetta, and pallium / · NVNTIA · PACIS · (trefoil stops), Noah’s Ark left upon sea; mountain peak to right; above dove flying left, holding olive branch in beak. CNI XVI 92; Muntoni 3; Serafini 4-5; Berman 2213; Friedberg 175; KM 603. EF. Rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 14 (9 October 1998), lot 1147; Schulman 271 (17 November 1980), lot 2952; Eduardo Martinori Collection (Santamaria, 22 November 1913), lot 3438.

This issue was struck in commemoration of the treaty between the Rijswijk Netherlands and the Netherlands, England, France, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire.