WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS. ITALY. Vatican, Clement XIV (1769-1774), Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, The Expulsion of the Jesuits, Silver Medal, 1773, by J L Oexlein, bust right raising hand in blessing, rev NVNQVAM NOVI VOS DISCEDITE A MEONES, Christ with St Peter and St Paul dismissing three Jesuits, 44mm (Linc 1929; vL suppl VI, XLIV, 487; Patrignani p. 118, 17a; Erlanger 2316). Good extremely fine with light tone.
The Suppression of the Jesuits had started in 1767, in Portugal and Spain and their Empires, France, the Two Sicilies, Parma and Malta. The medal commemorates the Dominus ac Redemptor, the papal brief of 21 July 1773.
Estimate: £200-300