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Pius VI
Italian (Rome)
1785
Medium/Technique
Metal; bronze
Dimensions
Diameter: 41 mm (1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Malcolm Storer
Accession Number30.78
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
DescriptionCircular medal of Pope Pius VI (1717-1799).
Obverse: Bust of Pius Sextus looking to proper left; inscribed at edge "PIVS*SEXTVS*PONT*MAX*A*XI*".
Reverse: Building façade with three people, a horse-rider, and a dog in foreground; inscribed above "PVERIS·ET·PVELLA·LIMENTARIS·TIPERNAT·TIBERINOR" and in exergue "A·CI[reversed "C"]I[reversed "C"]CCXXCV".
Obverse: Bust of Pius Sextus looking to proper left; inscribed at edge "PIVS*SEXTVS*PONT*MAX*A*XI*".
Reverse: Building façade with three people, a horse-rider, and a dog in foreground; inscribed above "PVERIS·ET·PVELLA·LIMENTARIS·TIPERNAT·TIBERINOR" and in exergue "A·CI[reversed "C"]I[reversed "C"]CCXXCV".
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "PIVS*SEXTVS*PONT*MAX*A*XI*".
Reverse: Inscribed above "PVERIS·ET·PVELLA·LIMENTARIS·TIPERNAT·TIBERINOR" and in exergue "A·CI[reversed "C"]I[reversed "C"]CCXXCV".
Reverse: Inscribed above "PVERIS·ET·PVELLA·LIMENTARIS·TIPERNAT·TIBERINOR" and in exergue "A·CI[reversed "C"]I[reversed "C"]CCXXCV".
ProvenanceBy 1930, Malcolm Storer; 1930, given by Malcolm Storer to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 6, 1930)