Charles Jean Franois Chron (1635-98), bronze medal of Pope Clement IX, dated 1699, CLEMENS IX PONT MAX AN III, bust right wearing camauro, mozetta and stole, signed on truncation CHERON.F, rev. AELIO PONTE EXORNATO, the Ponte San Angelo, the River Tiber reclining in foreground, an angel with trumpets flying above, 95mm. (Bonnani II,705,14; Lincoln 1282; Tocci-Worsdale 317; Venuti XIV; Weber, Bauten Roms 196), small piercing at 12 o'clock, some verdigris, brown patina, very fine

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Charles Jean Franois Chron (1635-98), bronze medal of Pope Clement IX, dated 1699, CLEMENS IX PONT MAX AN III, bust right wearing camauro, mozetta and stole, signed on truncation CHERON.F, rev. AELIO PONTE EXORNATO, the Ponte San Angelo, the River Tiber reclining in foreground, an angel with trumpets flying above, 95mm. (Bonnani II,705,14; Lincoln 1282; Tocci-Worsdale 317; Venuti XIV; Weber, Bauten Roms 196), small piercing at 12 o'clock, some verdigris, brown patina, very fine

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Cast in 1699 to celebrate the restoration of the Pons Aelius, the Hadrianic name for the Ponte San Angelo.