210, Lot: 411. Estimate $100. Sold for $94. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal Medals. Clement XI (Gianfrancesco Albani). 1700-1721. Æ Medal (31mm, 14.64 g, 12h). Beatrice Hamerani, engraver. Dated 1702. CLEM · XI · PONT · M · A · II ·, bust right, wearing camauro, mozzetta, and pallium; triskeles stops / VADE · ET · PREDICA, Clement seated right on throne, handing text to man kneeling left; · MDCCII · in exergue. Mazio 380; Lincoln 1608-9. EF.

From the Luparello Collection.

Clement XI, born to a noble family in Urbino, became a patron of education and the arts, founding a public library and augmenting the collection in the Vatican. He faced great conflict, however, in the form of the War of Spanish Succession soon after his accession and was eventually forced to support the claims of each side.