Triton XX, Lot: 1643. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ITALY, Papale (prigioniero del Vaticano). Leo XIII. 1878-1903. AV Medal (43mm, 53.52 g, 12h). By Bianchi. Dually dated 1879 and RY 2 (
in Roman numerals). LEO · XIII · PONT · MAX · ANNO · II ·, bust left, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / GENS · ET · REGNVM · QVOD · NON · SERVIERIT · MIHI · PERIBIT, personification of the church seated facing in clouds, holding cross and gospel; in exergue, MDCCCLXXIX. Rinaldi 73; Mazio supp. 775 (all references for silver). EF, hairlines. Very rare.