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Electronic Auction 395  12 April 2017
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Lot 529

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 300 USD
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GERMANY(?). Cast AR Medal (34mm, 9.95 g, 6h). Satirical Anti-Catholic issue. Cast late 16th century. ECCLESIA PERVERSA TENET FACIEO DIABOLI, head of Pope left, wearing Papal tiara, inverting to head of Satan right, with sow's ear and horn / STVLTI ALIQVANDO SAPIENTES, head of a Cardinal left, wearing gallero, inverting to head of a jester right, wearing fool's cap. Mitchiner, Jetons 3026. VF, toned.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex J. Henri Ripstra Collection (William O. Coats Auction, 14 February 1975), lot 1746.
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