British and World Commemorative Medals - Baldwin's
British and World Commemorative Medals - Baldwin's
British and World Commemorative Medals - Baldwin's
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285 Innocent XI, Benedetto Odescalchi, restrike Bronze<br />
Annual Medal, Year 11 (1686), by G Hamerani,<br />
bust right wearing cap, cope <strong>and</strong> stole, rev cross on<br />
rock buffeted by the four winds, IN PERPETVVM<br />
TRIVMPHAT, 36mm (Linc 1470; Mazio 347; Roma<br />
130). Extremely fine. £40-60<br />
286 Alex<strong>and</strong>er VIII (1610-1689-1691), Pietro Vito<br />
Ottoboni. The Pope’s Monument, cast Bronze<br />
Medal, by Ferdin<strong>and</strong> de Saint Urbain, bust of the<br />
Pope left, rev elevation of the Pope’s tomb in St<br />
Peter’s, with group of admiring figures to the right,<br />
PETRVS. CARD. OTTHOBONVS. S.R.E. VICECANO<br />
PATRVO. MAG. BENEMERENTI. POSVIT, 64.5mm<br />
(Linc 1512; Ciech 264; Weber 361; Roma 137; Venuti<br />
XXI). A somewhat porous cast. £40-60<br />
287 Clement XI, (1700-1721), Giovanni Francesco<br />
Albani, Sealing the Holy Door, Bronze Medal, 1700,<br />
by G Hamerani, bust right wearing decorated cope<br />
<strong>and</strong> tiara, rev Pope leads the ceremony <strong>and</strong> lays the<br />
first brick to seal the holy door, BENEDIXIT FILVS IN<br />
TE, 37mm (Linc 1594). Extremely fine, perhaps struck<br />
a little later. £70-90<br />
288 Clement XI, Giovanni Francesco Albani,<br />
architectural Bronze Medal, 1702, by G Hamerani,<br />
bust in tiara right, rev NOVA BASILICA S S XII APOST<br />
MDCCII, the floor plan of a church, 44mm (Linc<br />
1610). Extremely fine. £80-100<br />
289 Benedict XIII (1649-1724-1730), Pietro Francesco<br />
(later Vincenzo Maria) Orsini, Jubilee of the Year<br />
1725, restrike Bronze Annual Medal, by Ermengildo<br />
Hamerani, bust right wearing cap <strong>and</strong> cope,<br />
rev equestrian statue of Charlemagne, CAROLO<br />
MAGNO..., 48.5mm (Linc 1730; Weber 364; Roma<br />
163). Extremely fine. £60-80<br />
290 Benedict XIV (1675-1740-1758), Prospero Lorenzo<br />
Lambertini, , Memorial to Princess Clementina 1735,<br />
Bronze Medal, by O Hammerani, bust right, rev<br />
MEMORIÆ M CLEM BRIT REGINÆ, the momument,<br />
34mm (Linc 1812; Woolf 45.2). Perhaps a later strike,<br />
extremely fine. £80-100<br />
291 Pius VII, Chiaramonti (1800-1823), Liberation of<br />
the Pope from imprisonment by Napoeon, 1814,<br />
Gilt-bronze Medal, by Tommaso Merc<strong>and</strong>etti, PIVS<br />
SEPTIMVS PONT M A XV T MERCANDETTI F R bust<br />
right, rev RENOVATVM PRODIGIVM S PONTIFICIS<br />
REDITVS RELIGIONIS TRIVMPHVS A D MDCCCXIV<br />
an angel liberates St Peter, 39mm (Bartolotti E 814).<br />
Very fine. £30-50<br />
292 Leo XII (1823-1829), Annibale Francesco Clemente<br />
Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga,<br />
Bronze Annual Medal, Year 3, by Giuseppe<br />
Girometti, bust right, wearing mantel <strong>and</strong> Zuchetto,<br />
rev Pope sealing the holy door in 1825, 42mm (Linc<br />
2115). Extremely fine. £40-60
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