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CNG 88, Lot: 2007. Estimate $500.
Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Pius VI (Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi). 1775-1799. AR Medal (40mm, 26.22 g, 12h). By G. Hamerani. Dually-dated RY XVII and 1791 in Roman numerals. PIVS · SEXTVS PONT · MAX · A · XVII, bust right, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / AGRO · POMPTIN · COLONIS · REST · (the restoration of the Pontine fields), female figure (the Pontine Marshes) seated facing, head right, wearing grain wreath, cradling cornucopia and extending arm; below, overturned urns from which liquid flows; MDCCXCI in exergue. Mazio 531; Lincoln 1985; Patrignani 74a. Choice EF, lightly toned and lustrous.