Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1938. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal States. Innocent XII (Antonio Pignatelli). 1691-1700. AR Piastra (31.89 g, 12h). Dated RY 8 and 1698. Ferdinand de Saint Urbain, sculptor. INNOCEN • XII • P • M • AN • VIII •, capped bust right wearing stole; S•VRBA• OP• below / GRATIA • VOBIS • ET • PAX • MVLTIPLICETVR, St. Peter blessing the multitude; S•V• OP• 1698• and Farsetti arms in exergue. Muntoni III p. 51, 19; CNI XVI p. 496, 111; Berman 2227; Davenport 4107; KM 608. Good VF, toned. A masterpiece of die-cutting. ($1000)

This medallic piastra and the half piastra in the previous lot mark the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick, which ended the War of the Grand Alliance, a nine year conflict to block the expansionist Louis XIV of France, confronted by the combined forces of England, the Lowlands, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and Sweden.