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Lot # 668
Benedict XIV, Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini of Bologna. Pope from 1740 to 1758. The Pope Virtues. Bronze medal 1740. By Ottone Hamerani. (Bronze, 39.52 mm, 26.89 g). BENEDICTVS XIV PONT MAX Bust right with camauro, mozzetta and stole decorated with the Holy Cross; on the shoulder cut, HAMERANI. Rev. IVDICABIT IN AEQVITATE The Church with Tiara holds scales and crosier with Christogram crushing some snakes on the ground; in exergue, MDCCXL; below, the capitoline She-Wolf (Hamerani workshop emblem). Patrignani 1939, 2. Mazio 452. Venuti p. 363, n. 1. Nearly Uncirculated. Ex Tkalec, May 7, 2008 part II, lot 493.