Lot 756
756
Alessandro Ludovisi, Gregory XV (1621-23), by Giacomo Antonio Moro dated 1623, bust right wearing cope decorated with the risen Christ, and morse decorated with the Virgin of the Apocalypse, signed I.A.M. on truncation, 1623 below, rev. PACIS RELIGIONIS AMOR, seated figures of Religion and Peace, 36.5mm. (Bart.623; L.927; Maz.180; TN.XXVII, 1), the fields lightly tooled and a trace of a mount at 12 o,clock, very fine
Alessandro Ludovisi, Gregory XV (1621-23), by Giacomo Antonio Moro dated 1623, bust right wearing cope decorated with the risen Christ, and morse decorated with the Virgin of the Apocalypse, signed I.A.M. on truncation, 1623 below, rev. PACIS RELIGIONIS AMOR, seated figures of Religion and Peace, 36.5mm. (Bart.623; L.927; Maz.180; TN.XXVII, 1), the fields lightly tooled and a trace of a mount at 12 o,clock, very fine

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Alessandro Ludovisi, Gregory XV (1621-23), by Giacomo Antonio Moro dated 1623, bust right wearing cope decorated with the risen Christ, and morse decorated with the Virgin of the Apocalypse, signed I.A.M. on truncation, 1623 below, rev. PACIS RELIGIONIS AMOR, seated figures of Religion and Peace, 36.5mm. (Bart.623; L.927; Maz.180; TN.XXVII, 1), the fields lightly tooled and a trace of a mount at 12 o,clock, very fine

Lot Essay

The annual medal for 1623 celebrates the peace, negotiated in part by Gregory, between France and Spain. Bartolotti notes 346 medals struck in silver.