210, Lot: 358. Estimate $150. Sold for $96. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal Medals. Pius III (Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini). 1503. Æ Medal (43mm, 48.23 g, 12h). Dated 1503. PIVS · III · PONT · MAX ·, bust right, wearing cope; · M · D · III · below; star stops / SVB · VMBRA · ALARVM · TVARVM ·, Caesar Borgia kneeling right pleading to Pius, seated left, for protection from the Orsini. Mazio 31; Lincoln 420-1; DDL pl. III, 8 corr.. EF, flan crack on obverse.

From the Luparello Collection.