Watch List notes:

Clement XI (1649–1700-1721), Albani, Raising the Colonna di Antonino Pio, bronze annual medal, Year 7 [1707], by Ermenegildo Hamerani, bust r., in tiara, rev. view of the scaffold around the column, DEO SACRA RESVRGET, 39mm. (Linc.1631; Weber 258; Roma 159; Bartolotti 707), small stain on obverse, otherwise about extremely fine The much broken Antonine Column had been discovered by Francesco Fontana in 1703. Although the base was restored, the column was never raised. Eventually Pius VI ordered that the rare Egyptian red granite should be used to repair the Obelisco di Montecitorio, which had been found in 1748. The column's much restored base is in the Vatican Museum.

Estimate: £100-150