Triton XX, Lot: 1645. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (prigioniero del Vaticano). Leo XIII. 1878-1903. AV Medal (43mm, 54.96 g, 12h). Resolution of a Territorial Dispute over the Caroline Islands. By Bianchi. Dually dated 1885 and RY 10 (in Roman numerals). LEO · XIII · PONT · MAX · ANNO · X, bust left, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / CONTROVERSIA · DE · INSVLIS · KAROLINIS · EX · AEVITATE · DIREMPTA, personification of the Church standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding long scepter and olive branch, flanked by Germania and Hispania, each resting coat-of-arms on ground; in exergue, PACIS · ARBITRA/ ET · CONCILIATRIX. MDCCCLXXXV. Rinaldi 81; Mazio supp. 808 (all references for silver). Superb EF, hairlines.

Ex Nomisma 51 (14 October 2014), lot 2114.