271, Lot: 163. Estimate $50000. Sold for $85000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Clemens VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini). 1592-1605. AV Quadrupla (30mm, 13.34 g, 11h). Rome mint. Dated 1598. CLEMENS • VIII • PONT • M •, bust left, wearing zucchetto and mantum / • DEOSCVLATA SVNT •, Justice standing right, holding sword and scales, and shaking hands with Peace standing left, holding olive branch; in exergue, mintmaster’s mark between 15 98. CNI XVI 41; Muntoni 1; Serafini -; Berman 1433; Friedberg 92. Good VF. Extremely rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 14 (9 October 1998), lot 1089; Ex John Work Garrett Collection (Part II, Numsimatic Fine Arts/Leu, 16 March 1984), lot 1201; Jacques Schulman (11 November 1928); Prince Waldeck Collection.