Live auction - fwo_530535 - VATICAN - PIUS XI (Achille Ratti) 100 Lire an VIII 1929 Rome
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| Estimate : | 500 € |
| Price : | 340 € |
| Maximum bid : | 340 € |
| End of the sale : | 04 June 2019 19:39:45 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : 100 Lire an VIII
Date: 1929
Mint name / Town : Roma
Quantity minted : 10000
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,83 g.
Edge : cannelée
Coments on the condition:
Légères traces de frottement
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : PIUS. XI. PONT. MAX. ANNO. VIII..
Obverse description : Buste habillé de Pie XI à droite ; en-dessous la signature des graveurs MISTRUZZI et A. MOTTI. INC..
Reverse
Reverse legend : STATO DELLA CIT-TA DEL VATICANO.
Reverse description : Figure du Christ régnant tenant dans sa main droite le sceptre et dans sa main gauche le globe ; un enfant accroupi s’appuie sur son genou ; à la gauche du Christ Lire et à sa droite 100 et 1929 en dessous.
Historical background
VATICAN - PIUS XI (Achille Ratti)
(1922-1939)
Born in 1857, Achille Ratti was a priest in 1879. He was nuncio in Warsaw between 1918 and 1921, then became cardinal-archbishop of Milan and succeeded Benedict XV on February 6, 1922 under the name of Pius XI. "Pope of the missions", he is also very attached to making the Christian spirit penetrate into legislation and is at the origin of numerous concordats with Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Portugal, the Baltic States. He also obtained the restoration of normal relations with the Italian State during the Lateran Agreements (1929). Faced with the rise of communist and facist powers, he recalls Christian values, particularly in the face of atheism..
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