Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1956. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $1750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal States. Hadrian IV. 1154-1159. PB Bulla (40mm, 51.16 gm). Facing nimbate heads of St. Paul and St. Peter; cross between / ADRI ANVS PP IIII in three lines. Serafini I pg. 27, 1. VF, thickly encrusted original gray patina. Rare seal of the only English Pope. ($1500)

Ex Vecchi I (1-2 February 1996), lot 1212.

With no coins to his name, his lead seals are the only quasi-numismatic 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.