271, Lot: 173. Estimate $2500. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Beatus Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti). 1846-1878. AV 50 Lire (28mm, 16.16 g, 6h). Rome mint. Dually-dated RY 24 and 1870. PIVS IX PONT. MAX. A. XXIV, bust left, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / STATO PONTIFICIO, 50/LIRE/1870 in three lines; all within wreath. CNI 274; Muntoni 39b; Serafini 401-2; Berman 3331; Pagani 525; Friedberg 279; KM 1388. UNC, a few tiny marks.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 14 (9 October 1998), lot 1241.