210, Lot: 413. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal Medals. Clement XI (Gianfrancesco Albani). 1700-1721. Æ Medal (34mm, 22.76 g, 12h). Giovanni Hamerani, engraver. Dated year 4 (1703/4). CLEMENS · XI · P : M : AN : IIII ·, bust right, wearing camauro, mozzetta, and pallium / VT · ERVANTVR · A · VIA · MALA ·, interior of the reformatory erected by Clement. Mazio 385; Lincoln 1621; Whitman 158. Superb 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.