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Auction: 4026 - Ancient, English and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 602

Italy, Papal States, Pius IX, Ferretti (1846-78), bronze gilt, 48 mm., by Filippo Speranza, bust right wearing heavily embroidered stole, rev., Christ asleep in the boat with his terrified apostles in a tempestuous sea (1869, Bartolotti -; BDM V/p.197), a few surface marks but extremely fine Estimate £ 80-100 Forrer (BDM V/p.197) notes: 'In 1869 Speranza engraved the official annual medal showing Christ asleep in the boat . . . This is one of his best.'

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