Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1941. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $2700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal States. Hadrian IV. 1154-1159. Lead Bulla (36mm, 47.19 gm). Facing heads of St. Paul and St. Peter / ADRI ANVS PP IIII. Serafini I pg.27, 1. VF, powdery gray patina. Rare seal of the only English Pope. ($1500)

With no coins to his name, his lead seals are the only "paranumismatic" relics of the only Englishman elected to the throne of St. Peter, Nicholas Brekespear of St. Albans. His most famous and far-reaching papal act was the Donation of Ireland in 1156, granting Henry II of England dominion over Ireland.