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Triton XX, Lot: 1650. 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, 57.53 g, 12h). By Bianchi. Dually dated 12 February 1893 and RY 16 (in Roman numerals). LEO · XIII · PONT · MAX · ANNO · XIV, bust left, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / QVINQVAGENNALIBVS · EPISCOPALIS · CONSECRATIONIS, Leo seated right, crowned bishop kneeling left; to right, prelate standing left, holding long patriarchal cross; radiant dove above; in exergue, XIX · FEBR ·/ MDCCCXCIII. Rinaldi 87; Mazio supp. 828 (all references for silver). Superb EF, hairlines. Very rare.


Ex Künker 181 (27 January 2011), lot 1033.