Triton XX, Lot: 1649. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (prigioniero del Vaticano). Leo XIII. 1878-1903. AV Medal (43mm, 54.30 g, 12h). By Bianchi. Dually dated 1891 and RY 14 (in Roman numerals). LEO · XIII · PONT · MAX · ANNO · XIV, bust left, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / REI · ASTRONOM · HONOR · IN · VAT · INSTAVRATVS · ET · AVCTVS, personification of Astronomy standing facing slightly left, holding globe and resting arm on column bearing wreathed bucranium and inscribed ANNO/ RESTITVTO/ MDLXXXII; astronomical instruments to left; to right, cherub kneeling left, inscribing scroll; observatory in background to right; in exergue, A · MDCCCXCI ·. Rinaldi 85; Mazio supp. 821 (all references for silver). EF, hairlines. Very rare.

Ex Künker 181 (27 January 2011), lot 1032.