Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1879. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal Coinage. Innocent VIII (Giovanni Battista Cybo). 1484-1492. Æ Cavallo (1.84 g, 1h). Aquila degli Abruzzi mint. Struck 1485-1486. + · INNOCENTIVS · P P · VIII ·, crossed keys; tiara above / (crown) · ΛQVILΛNΛ · LIBERTΛS · (star stops), eagle facing, head left, with wings spread. CNI XVIII 5; Muntoni 17; Berman 508. VF, brown patina.

From the Leonard O. Greenfield Collection.

The son of a Roman Senator, Innocent VIII was more concerned with the selling of Church offices and the marriage arrangements of his own family than the governing and administering of the papal states, which reached the point of chaos upon his death. He did, however, issue the bull Summis desiderantes, which instigated severe measures against heresy as well as confirming Tomás de Torquemada as grand inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.