287, Lot: 710. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Clemens VII (Giulio di Giulino de’ Medici). 1523-1534. Æ Medal (42mm, 32.59 g, 12h). Dually-dated RY 2 and 1525 in Roman numerals [1500 on the reverse]. Bust right, wearing zucchetto and mantum / View of the ceremony of the closing of the porta sancta (the Holy Door). Mazio 46 var. (undated rev.); Lincoln 467 var. (same). Near EF, rich brown surfaces, a few light scratches on the reverse. An unusual variety apparently muled with the Jubilee issue under Alexander VI (Mazio 29; Lincoln 412) Rare.

From an old English collection.