Attractive Restrike

424, Lot: 655. Estimate $150. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Alexander VII. 1655-1667. Restrike Æ Medal (35mm, 14.55 g, 12h). On the End of the Plague in Rome. By Alberto Hamerani. Dated RY 3 (AD 1667). ALEXAN VII PONT MAX A III, bust right, wearing camauro, mozzetta, and pallium; star stops / POPVLVM · RELIGIONE · TVETVR ·, Angel standing right on skeleton lying against base of cross, resting arm on cross and holding bridle and Gospels; (AH) beneath knee of skeleton. Börner 1165 var. (silver); Lincoln 1171. EF, red-brown surfaces.

Ex Michael Hall Collection (Baldwin’s 66, 29 June 2010), lot 1128.