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Auction 93  27 Jun 2018
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Lot 135

Estimate: 1000 GBP
Price realized: 3000 GBP
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Peter Paul Borner, Innocent XII (Pope, 1691-1700), large bronze medal (1694), bust left in cope and wearing Papal tiara, rev., view of the Dogana (customs house) built at the Ripa Grande, 95mm (Bortolotti p. 106; BDM I, 218 erroneously attributed to J.B. Borner), extremely fine with dark patina, very rare The medal is discussed in an essay by Augusto Donini in Medaglia 10, Milan 1975, pp. 131-135. The reverse is taken from a print by Alessandro Specchi showing the building designed by the architect Mattia de' Rossi. Borner was a Swiss medallist and die engraver who worked at the mint in Rome and a number of Papal coins bear his signature.
Estimate: 1000-1500 GBP
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