Papal Coinage
.pdf
PAPAL COINS
Paul II., 1464-1471.
Ducato. Rome mint. 3,47 g.
Obv.: PAVLVS II - ·PONT · AN· I Coat of arms topped by papal tiara over crossed keys; all in quadralobe.
Rev.: Christ standing to left, giving keys on ribbon to kneeling pope at left. . APOSTOLVS . PETRVS
Reference: Fb. 15 a; Muntoni 12. GOLD. Rare, VF.
Estimate: 1,000.00 EUR. Price realized: 1,200 EUR (approx. 1,456 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Paul II., 1464-1471.
Ducato. Rome mint. 25 mm 3,44 g.
Obv.: PAVLVS PP SECVNDVS Coat of arms topped by papal tiara over crossed keys; all in quadralobe.
Rev.: S PETRVS S PAVLVS/.ROMA Nimbate Saint Peter with key and book, and nimbate St. Paul with sword and book, stand frontal, next to each other.
Reference: CNI 16. Muntoni 16. Berman 401. Friedberg 19. Rare. VF.
Estimate: EUR 400. Price realized: 320 EUR (approx. 475 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Paul II., 1464-1471.
Ducato. Rome mint. 23 mm 3,25 g.
Obv.: *SECVNDVS. - .PAVLVS.PP* Coat of arms topped by papal tiara over crossed keys; all in quadralobe.
Rev.: .S.PETRVS. - .S - . - .PAVLVS./.ROMA Nimbate Saint Peter with key and book, and nimbate St. Paul with sword and book, stand frontal, next to each other.
Reference: CNI. 16, Muntoni 16, Friedberg 14. 3,25g. Sehr schön.
Estimation: EUR 500. Price realized: 600 EUR (approx. 708 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Paul II., 1464-1471.
Ducato. Rome mint. 3,48 g.
Obv.: PAVLVS PP SECVNDVS Coat of arms topped by papal tiara over crossed keys; all in quadralobe.
Rev.: S PETRVS S PAVLVS/.ROMA Nimbate Saint Peter with key and book, and nimbate St. Paul with sword and book, stand frontal, next to each other.
Reference: Fb. 19; Muntoni 16. GOLD. Rare. VF-XF.
Estimate: 1000 EUR. Price realized: 1,200 EUR (approx. 1,839 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Paul II., 1464-1471.
Ducato. Rome mint. 3,45 g.
Obv.: PAVLVS PP SECVNDVS Coat of arms topped by papal tiara over crossed keys; all in quadralobe.
Rev.: S PETRVS S PAVLVS/.ROMA Nimbate Saint Peter with key and book, and nimbate St. Paul with sword and book, stand frontal, next to each other.
GOLD. Rare, VF+
Estimate: 500 EUR. Price realized: 950 EUR (approx. 1,456 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Paul II., 1464-1471.
Grosso. Rome mint.
Obv.: PAVLVS PP SECVNDVS Coat of arms topped by papal tiara over crossed keys; all in quadralobe.
Rev.: S PETRVS S PAVLVS/.ROMA Nimbate St. Paul with sword and book and Nimbate Saint Peter with key and book,stand frontal, next to each other.
Beautiful patina, VF-XF.
Estimate: 200 EUR. Price realized: 750 EUR (approx. 1,150 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Paul II., 1464-1471.
Grosso. Rome mint. 28 mm 3,83 g.
Obv.: PAVLVS PP SECVNDVS Coat of arms topped by papal tiara over crossed keys; all in quadralobe.
Rev.: S PETRVS S PAVLVS/.ROMA Nimbate St. Paul with sword and book and Nimbate Saint Peter with key and book,stand frontal, next to each other.
Reference: Muntoni 21, Berman 403. XF.
Estimate EUR 200. Price realized: 360 EUR (approx. 437 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Paul II., 1464-1471.
1/3-Grosso. Ancona mint. 1,29 g.
Obv.: PAVLVS PP SECVNDVS Coat of arms topped by papal tiara over crossed keys; all in quadralobe.
Rev.: S PETRVS S PAVLVS Nimbate Saint Peter with key and book, and nimbate St. Paul with sword and book, stand frontal, next to each other. Mintmark between saints.
Reference: Berman 424; CNI 92 (Rom); Muntoni 59. XF-VF.
Estimation DM 250. Price realized: 470 DEM (approx. 213 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Paul II., 1464-1471.
1/3-Grosso. Ancona mint.
Obv.: PAVLVS PP SECVNDVS Coat of arms topped by papal tiara over crossed keys; all in quadralobe.
Rev.: S PETRVS S PAVLVS Nimbate Saint Peter with key and book, and nimbate St. Paul with sword and book, stand frontal, next to each other. Mintmark between saints.
Reference: Biaggi 50 var.; Muntoni 59. Rare, VF.
Estimate: 100 EUR. Price realized: 200 EUR (approx. 307 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Paul II., 1464-1471.
Bolognino. Rome mint. 0,51 g.
Obv.: Tiara-crowned bust facing. . PAVLVS . PAPA . II. Mintmark at bottom.
Rev.: URBI in cruciform around ball. S. PETRV S. PAVLVS .
Reference: Berman 411; CNI 117; Muntoni 36. VF.
Estimation DM 150. Price realized: 190 DEM (approx. 86 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Paul II., 1464-1471.
1/3-Grosso. Ancona mint.
Obv.: PAVLVS PP SECVNDVS Coat of arms topped by papal tiara over crossed keys; all in quadralobe.
Rev.: S PETRVS S PAVLVS Nimbate Saint Peter with key and book, and nimbate St. Paul with sword and book, stand frontal, next to each other. Mintmark between saints.
Beautiful toning, VF-XF.
Estimate: 100 EUR. Price realized: 380 EUR (approx. 582 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Paul II., 1464-1471.
Bolognino. Rome mint. 0,51 g.
Obv.: Tiara-crowned bust facing. . PAVLVS . PAPA . II. Mintmark at bottom.
Rev.: URBI in cruciform around ball. S. PETRV S. PAVLV’ .
Reference: Munt. 36 kl. Sfr., VF.
Starting Price EUR 30. Price realized: 62 EUR (approx. 91 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Paul II., 1464-1471.
Bolognino. Ancona mint.
Obv.: **PAVLVS PP SECVNDVS ** Coat of arms topped by papal tiara over crossed keys.
Rev.: *S*PETRVS*S*PAVLVS* (mintmark at bottom) - Busts of St. Peter and St. Paul facing each other
Very rare! VF-XF.
Estimate: 200 EUR. Price realized: 2,400 EUR (approx. 3,679 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
Sixtus IV - 9 Aug.1471 to 12 Aug. 1484
Sixtus IV (July 21, 1414 – August 12, 1484), born Francesco della Rovere, was Pope from 1471 to 1484. He founded the Sistine Chapel where the team of artists he brought together introduced the Early Renaissance to Rome with the first masterpiece of the city's new artistic age (Michelangelo's frescoes were added in a later phase).
He was born to a modest family near Savona, Liguria, Italy: the precise town is variously stated to be Albisola or, more often, Celle Ligure, a town near Savona in the Republic of Genoa. He joined the Franciscan Order, an unlikely choice for a political career, and his intellectual qualities were revealed while he was studying philosophy and theology at the University of Pavia. He went on to lecture at many eminent Italian universities. He was elected Minister General of the Franciscan order in 1464. In 1467, he was made a Cardinal by Pope Paul II (1464–1471).
With his election to pope, Sixtus IV declared a renewed crusade against the Ottoman Turks in Smyrna. Fund-raising for the crusade was more successful than the half-hearted attempts to storm Smyrna, with little to show in return. Some fruitless attempts were made in unification with the Greek Church. For the remainder of his pontificate he turned to temporal issues and dynastic considerations. Sixtus continued the dispute with Louis XI of France (1461–1483), who upheld the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438), according to which papal decrees needed royal assent before they could be promulgated in France. This was a cornerstone of the privileges claimed for the Gallican Church and could never be
shifted as long as Louis XI maneuvered to replace Ferdinand I of Naples with a French prince, thus being in conflict with the papacy, which as a princely strategist could not permit it.
Like a number of Popes, Sixtus IV adhered to the system of nepotism. In the fresco by Melozzo da Forlì he is accompanied by his Della Rovere and Riario nephews, not all of whom were made cardinals: the protonotary apostolic Raffaele Riario (on his right), the future Pope Julius II (1503–1513) standing before him, and Girolamo Riario and Giovanni della Rovere behind the kneeling Platina, author of the first humanist history of the Popes. His nephew Pietro Riario also benefited of his nepotism, becoming one of the richest men in Rome and being entrusted of Sixtus IV's foreign policy, but died prematurely in 1474, his role passing to Giuliano della Rovere.
The secular fortunes of the Della Rovere began when Sixtus invested his nephew Giovanni with the signoria of Senigallia and arranged his marriage to the daughter of Federico III da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino; from the union came a line of Della Rovere dukes of Urbino that lasted until the line expired, in 1631.
In his territorial aggrandizement of the Papal States Sixtus IV's niece's son Cardinal Raffaele Riario, for whom the Palazzo della Cancelleria was constructed, was a leader in the 1478 failed "Pazzi conspiracy" to assassinate both Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother and replace them in Florence with Sixtus IV's other nephew, Girolamo Riario. Francesco Salviati, archbishop of Pisa and a main organizer of the plot, was hanged on the walls of the Florentine Palazzo della Signoria. To this Sixtus IV replied with an interdict and two years' of war with Florence. He also encouraged the Venetians to attack Ferrara, which he wished to obtain for another nephew. The angered Italian princes allied to force Sixtus IV to make peace, to his great annoyance.
As a temporal prince who constructed stout fortresses in the Papal States, Sixtus IV committed himself to Venice's aggression against Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, inciting the Venetians to attack in 1482 in the so-called War of Ferrara. Their combined assault was opposed by an alliance of the Sforzas of Milan, the Medicis of Florence along with the King of Naples, normally a hereditary ally and champion of the Papacy. For refusing to desist from the very hostilities that he himself had instigated (and for being a dangerous rival to Della Rovere dynastic ambitions in the Marche), Sixtus IV placed Venice under interdict in 1483.
Sixtus IV consented to the Spanish Inquisition and issued a bull in 1478 that established an Inquisitor in Seville, under political pressure from Ferdinand of Aragon, who threatened to withhold military support from his kingdom of Sicily. Nevertheless, Sixtus IV quarrelled over protocol and prerogatives of jurisdiction, was unhappy with the excesses of the Inquisition and took measures to condemn the most flagrant abuses in 1482. In ecclesiastical affairs, Sixtus IV instituted the feast (December 8) of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. He formally annulled (1478) the confusedly reformist decrees of the Council of Constance.
Sixtus IV is one of several Popes suspected of being homosexual.
As a civic patron in Rome, even the anti-papal chronicler Stefano Infessura agreed that Sixtus IV should be admired. The dedicatory inscription in the fresco by Melozzo da Forlì in the Vatican Palace records: "You gave your city temples, streets, squares, fortifications, bridges and restored the Acqua Vergine as far as the Trevi..." In addition to restoring the aqueduct that provided Rome an alternative to the river water that had made the city famously unhealthy, he restored or rebuilt over 30 of Rome's dilapidated churches, among them San Vitale (1475) and Santa Maria del Popolo, and added seven new ones. The Sistine Chapel was sponsored by Sixtus IV, as was the Ponte Sisto, the Sistine Bridge – the first new bridge across the Tiber since antiquity – and the building of Via Sistina (later named Borgo Sant'Angelo), a road leading from Castel Sant'Angelo to Saint Peter. All this was done to facilitate the integration of the Vatican Hill and Borgo with the heart of old Rome. This was part of a broader scheme of urbanization carried out under Sixtus IV, who swept the long-established markets from the Campidoglio in 1477 and decreed in a bull of 1480 the widening of streets and the first post-Roman paving, the removal of porticoes and other post-classical impediments to free public passage.
At the beginning of his papacy in 1471, Sixtus IV donated several historically important Roman sculptures that founded a papal collection of art that would eventually develop into the collections of the Capitoline Museums. He also refounded, enriched and enlarged the Vatican Library. He had Regiomontanus attempt the first sanctioned reorganization of the Julian calendar and increased the size and prestige of the papal chapel choir, bringing singers and some prominent composers (Gaspar van Weerbeke, Marbrianus de Orto, and Bertrandus Vaqueras) to Rome from the North.
His bronze funerary monument, now in the basement Treasury of St. Peter's Basilica, like a giant casket of goldsmith's work, is by Antonio Pollaiuolo. The top of the casket is a lifelike depiction of the pope lying in state. Around the sides are bas relief panels, depicting with allegorical female figures the arts and sciences (Grammar, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Painting, Astronomy, Philosophy, and Theology). Each figure incorporates the oak tree ("rovere" in Italian) symbol of Sixtus IV. The overall program of these panels, their beauty, complex symbolism, classical references, and arrangement relative to each other is one of the most compelling and comprehesive illustrations of the Renaissance worldview.
In addition to being a patron of the arts, Sixtus IV was a patron of the sciences. Before becoming Pope, spent time at the then very liberal and cosmopolitan University of Padua, which maintained considerable independence from the Church and had a very international character. As pope, he issued a papal bull allowing local bishops to give the bodies of executed criminals and unidentified corpses to physicians and artists for dissection. It was this access to corpses which allowed the anatomist Vesalius along with Titian's pupil Jan Stephen van Calcar to complete the revolutionary medical/anatomical text De humani corporis fabrica.
At the death of Sixtus IV, the conclave of cardinals that met to elect his successor numbered thirty-two surviving cardinals, a greater number than at any time since the close of the twelfth century, excepting perhaps for the multiplied rival cardinalatial colleges of the Great Schism (1378–1417). Of the thirty-two, only three cardinals survived from before Pope Paul II: the two nephews of Pope Calixtus III (1455–1458), Rodrigo and Luis Borgia, and the nephew of Pope Pius II (1458–1464), Francesco di Nanni Todeschini de' Piccolomini. Six further cardinals survived from the pontificate of Paul II: Thomas Bourchier, Oliviero Carafa, Marco Barbo, Jean Balue, Giovanni Battista Zeno and Giovanni Michiel. The remaining twenty-three had been made cardinals by Sixtus IV, and the roster of the princely houses of Italy, France and Spain echoes the chronicles of Renaissance history: Giuliano della Rovere, Stefano Nardini, Pedro Gonsalvez de Mendoza, Giovanni Battista Cybo (later Pope Innocent VIII), Giovanni Arcimboldi, Philibert Hugonet, Giorgio da Costa, Charles de Bourbon l'ancien, Pierre de Foix le jeune, Girolamo Basso della Rovere, Gabriele Rangoni, Pietro Foscari, Juan of Aragon, Raffaele Sansoni Riario, Domenico della Rovere, Paolo Fregoso, Giovanni Battista Savelli, Giovanni Colonna, Giovanni Conti, Juan Moles de Margarit, Giovanni Giacomo Sclafenati, Giovanni Battista Orsini, and Ascanio Maria Sforza-Visconti.
PAPAL COINS
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484.
Fiorino di camera. Rome mint. 23 mm 3,38 g.
Obv.: –SIXTVS–PP– QV ARTVS– Coat of arms topped with papal tiara over crossed keys.
PAPAL COINS
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484.
Fiorino di camera. Rome mint. 3,36 g.
Obv.: –SIXTVS–PP– QV ARTVS– Coat of arms topped with papal tiara over crossed keys.
Rev.: o–SANCTVS–PE - TRVS–ALMA–ROMA– S. Nimbate S t. Peter fishing from a boat.
Reference: CNI 41. Muntoni 12 var. Berman 448. Friedberg 23. XF.
Estimate: EUR 1200. Price realized: 3,400 EUR (approx. 4,530 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484.
Fiorino di camera. Rome mint. (c.1475) 21.22 mm 3,39 g.
Obv.: Arms in quatrefoil. .SIXTVS.PP*. - .*QVARTVS.
Rev.: St. Peter in fishing boat. *.SANCTVS.PE TRVS.ALMA.ROMA.
Fr-23; CNI XV pl.XV,17; Berman-448. The portrayal of St. Peter in a ship would later become a very standard design. Here is one of the first (and surely one of the finest), examples of this type. Well struck and a visually stunning coin. NGC graded MS-64.
Estimated Value $3,000-3,500. Price realized: 5,000 USD.
Rev.: o–SANCTVS–PE - TRVS–ALMA–ROMA– S. Nimbate S t. Peter fishing from a boat.
Reference: Fb. 23; Muntoni 12 var. GOLD. Some rim damage, VF.
Estimate: 500 EUR. Price realized: 750 EUR (approx. 1,150 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484.
Ducato. Rome mint. 24 mm 3,50 g.
Obv.: –SIXTVS–PP– QV ARTVS– Coat of arms topped with papal tiara over crossed keys.
Rev.: Nimbate St. Peter with key and book, and nimbate St. Paul with sword and book, stand frontal S PETRUS S PAVLVS /ROMA
Reference: Muntoni 5; Fr. 25. XF.
Estimate CHF 2000. Price realized: 4,000 CHF (approx. 3,410 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS |
PAPAL COINS |
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484. |
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484. |
Ducato. Rome mint. 3,46 g. |
Ducato. Rome mint. 3,47 g. |
Obv.: –SIXTVS–PP– QV ARTVS– Coat of arms topped with papal tiara over crossed keys.
Rev.: Nimbate St. Peter with key and book, and nimbate St. Paul with sword and book, stand frontal S PETRUS S PAVLVS /ROMA
Reference: Fb. 25; Muntoni 6. GOLD. Rare. XF.
Estimate: 1250 EUR. Price realized: 1,400 EUR (approx. 2,146 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
Obv.: –SIXTVS–PP– QV ARTVS– Coat of arms topped with papal tiara over crossed keys.
Rev.: Nimbate St. Peter with key and book, and nimbate St. Paul with sword and book, stand frontal S PETRUS S PAVLVS /ROMA (MA ligate).
Reference: Fr:25. Good XF.
Estimate: EUR 1000. Price realized: 1,300 EUR (approx. 1,668 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484.
Ducato. Rome mint. 23.89 mm. 3,50 g.
Obv: Arms in quatrefoil surmounted by crossed keys and papal tiara.
.SIXTVS.PP* *QVARTVS.
Rev.: Nimbate St. Peter with key and book, and nimbate St. Paul with sword and book, stand frontal .S .PETRVS - S. - .PAVLVS. / ROMA.
Reference: Fr-25; CNI XV, pl.23; Berman-447v.NGC graded MS-62. St. Peter and St. Paul together is not a common design. The quality here is very special.
PAPAL COINS
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484.
Doppio grosso. Rome mint. 6,45 g.
Obv.: Capped bust of pope left. SIXTVS IIII PONT MAX VRBE REST
Rev.: Two nimbate saints fishing in boat. oNAVIS AETERNAE SALVTIS
Reference: Berman 450; CNI 13. Some porosity. VF.
Estimation CHF 600. Price realized: 3,900 CHF (approx. 2,960 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
Estimated Value $4,000-4,500.
PAPAL COINS
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484.
Grosso. Rome mint. 27 mm 3,18 g.
Obv.: Capped bust of pope left. SIXTVS IIII PONT MAX VRBE REST
Rev.: PVBLICæ VTILITATI Coat of arms surmounted by keys topped with papal tiara; in quadralobe.
Reference: CNI 63. Muntoni 14. Berman 451. Good VF.
Estimate: EUR 800. Price realized: 1,100 EUR (approx. 1,632 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484.
Grosso. Rome mint.
PAPAL COINS
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484.
Grosso. Rome mint. 2,56 g.
Obv.: Capped bust of pope left. SIXTVS IIII PONT MAX VRBE REST
Rev.: PVBLICæ VTILITATI Coat of arms surmounted by keys topped with papal tiara; in quadralobe.
Reference: Muntoni 14. Rare Patina, good VF.
Estimate: 300.00 EUR. Price realized: 475 EUR (approx. 570 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484.
Grosso. Rome mint. 3,34 g.
Obv: Arms in quatrefoil surmounted by crossed keys and papal tiara.
.SIXTVS.PP* *QVARTVS.
Rev.: Nimbate St. Paul with sword and book and nimbate St. Peter with key and book, stand frontal S. - .PAVLVS S .PETRVS -. / ROMA.
Reference: Muntoni 16. Good XF.
Estimate: 125,00 EUR. Price realized: 170 EUR (approx. 188 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
Obv: Arms in quatrefoil surmounted by crossed keys and papal tiara.
.SIXTVS.PP* *QVARTVS.
Rev.: Nimbate St. Paul with sword and book and nimbate St. Peter with key and book, stand frontal S. - .PAVLVS S .PETRVS -. / ROMA.
Reference: Muntoni 16. Beautiful Patina, VF.
Schätzpreis: 125.00 EUR. Price realized: 420 EUR (approx. 504 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS |
PAPAL COINS |
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484. |
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484. |
Grosso. Rome mint. 3,80 g. |
Grosso. Rome mint. |
Obv: Arms in quatrefoil surmounted by crossed keys and papal tiara.
.SIXTVS.PP* *QVARTVS.
Rev.: Nimbate St. Paul with sword and book and nimbate St. Peter with key and book, stand frontal S. - .PAVLVS S .PETRVS -. / ROMA.
Reference: Berman 452; CNI 87; Muntoni 16. XF.
Estimation DM 350. Price realized: 700 DEM (approx. 318 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484.
Grosso. Rome mint. 3,80 g.
Obv: Arms in quatrefoil surmounted by crossed keys and papal tiara.
.SIXTVS.PP* *QVARTVS.
Rev.: Nimbate St. Paul with sword and book and nimbate St. Peter with key and book, stand frontal S. - .PAVLVS S .PETRVS -. / ROMA.
Reference: Muntoni 16. VF +
Estimate: 200 EUR. Price realized: 420 EUR (approx. 564 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484.
Grosso. Rome mint. 3,76 g.
Obv: Arms in quatrefoiL surmounted by crossed keys and papal tiara.
.SIXTVS.PP* *QVARTVS.
Rev.: Nimbate St. Paul with sword and book and nimbate St. Peter with key and book, stand frontal S. - .PAVLVS S .PETRVS -. / ROMA.
Reference: Munt:17, some rim damage, good XF.
Estimate: EUR 30. Price realized: 230 EUR (approx. 276 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
Obv: Arms in quatrefoil surmounted by crossed keys and papal tiara.
.SIXTVS.PP* *QVARTVS.
Rev.: Nimbate St. Paul with sword and book and nimbate St. Peter with key and book, stand frontal S. - .PAVLVS S .PETRVS -. / ROMA.
Reference: Muntoni I pg. 81, 17 var.; Serafini pg. 141, 42; CNI XV pg. 296, 89; Berman 452. Toned, good VF.
Estimate $300. Price realized: 300 USD.
PAPAL COINS |
PAPAL COINS |
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484. |
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484. |
Grosso. Rome mint. 3,79 g. |
Grosso. 1475. Rome mint. 3,35 g. |
Obv: Arms in quatrefoil surmounted by crossed keys and papal tiara.
.SIXTVS.PP* *QVARTVS.
Rev.: Nimbate St. Paul with sword and book and nimbate St. Peter with key and book, stand frontal S. - .PAVLVS S .PETRVS -. / ROMA.
Reference: Muntoni I pg. 81, 18; Berman 452. Good VF.
Estimate $250. Price realized: 185 USD.
PAPAL COINS
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484.
Grosso. Rome mint. 27 mm 3,18 g.
Obv.: Capped bust of pope left. SIXTVS IIII PONT MAX VRBE REST
Rev.: PVBLICæ VTILITATI Coat of arms surmounted by keys topped with papal tiara; in quadralobe.
Very rare. Dark toning, VF-XF.
Estimate: 750 EUR. Price realized: 2,400 EUR (approx. 3,679 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
Obv: surmounted by crossed keys and papal tiara. .SIXTVS.PP IIII AN IV IVBILEI
Rev.: Nimbate St. Paul with sword and book and nimbate St. Peter with key and book, stand frontal S. - .PAVLVS S .PETRVS -. / ROMA.
Reference: Berman 453; CNI 21; Muntoni 24. VF. Holy Year issue.
Estimation DM 350. Price realized: 440 DEM (approx. 200 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)
PAPAL COINS
Sixtus IV., 1471-1484.
Grosso. Rome mint. 3,79 g.
Obv: Arms in quatrefoil surmounted by crossed keys and papal tiara.
.SIXTVS.PP* *QVARTVS.
Rev.: Nimbate St. Paul with sword and book and nimbate St. Peter with key and book, stand frontal S. - .PAVLVS S .PETRVS -. / ROMA.
Small scratches, VF+
Estimate: 150 EUR. Price realized: 360 EUR (approx. 552 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)