Live Auction 1206The Zacos and LUMA collections and other coins and medals
Fabio Chigi, Alexander VII (1655-67), by Gaspare Morone, dated 1660, bust left wearing mozetta, camauro and stole, signed G.M. on truncation, AN VI below, rev. S Ivo della Sapienza, Rome, 40.5mm. (Bart.660; Bon.II, 641, 31; L.1203; Maz.262; TN. XXXI, 6; Weber 300), a very fine original medal, tooled both sides, pierced and plugged at 12 o'clock
Lot 760

Fabio Chigi, Alexander VII (1655-67), by Gaspare Morone, dated 1660, bust left wearing mozetta, camauro and stole, signed G.M. on truncation, AN VI below, rev. S Ivo della Sapienza, Rome, 40.5mm. (Bart.660; Bon.II, 641, 31; L.1203; Maz.262; TN. XXXI, 6; Weber 300), a very fine original medal, tooled both sides, pierced and plugged at 12 o'clock

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Fabio Chigi, Alexander VII (1655-67), by Gaspare Morone, dated 1660, bust left wearing mozetta, camauro and stole, signed G.M. on truncation, AN VI below, rev. S Ivo della Sapienza, Rome, 40.5mm. (Bart.660; Bon.II, 641, 31; L.1203; Maz.262; TN. XXXI, 6; Weber 300), a very fine original medal, tooled both sides, pierced and plugged at 12 o'clock

Specialist note

The annual medal for 1660 shows the courtyard of the Sapienza (University) built by Giocomo della Porta (completed c.1602), and in an unpromising site in the angle of two buildings, the University chapel (consecrated 6 November 1660), with its dome by Francesco Borromini.