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Auction 60  26 May 2022
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Lot 520

Estimate: 80 GBP
Price realized: 64 GBP
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Italy, Vatican, Gelasius I (492-496), African born Pope, restitutional stuck bronze medal, tonsured bust l., wearing mozetta and stole, rev. legend in 16 lines, 37.5mm., nearly very fine; Hadrian VI (1522-1523), Adriaan Florensz Boeyens, Accession [1522], restitutional bronze medal, unknown medallist, bust left, wearing camauro and mozzetta, ADRIANVS VI PONT MAXIM, rev. trophy of Papal emblems, SPIRITVS SAPIENTIÆ – ROMA, 40.5mm. (Linc. 456-7; Mazio 42), extremely fine with dark patination, scarce (2)
Gelasius I was born in Tunis. Hadrian VI, the only Dutch-born Pope to date who, at the time of his election, had never even been to Italy, yet alone Rome.
(80-120 GBP)
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