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What Once Was Lost, Now Is Found

I spent about 15 years trying to find a Clement VI medal like this one. I finally found one, from a German vendor, last October. Took about 4 months to get here! Thought it was lost. Anyway, this medal is a recast, I believe, from the late 18th, early 19th century, when such recasts were popular. A fairly poor one, admittedly, and may even have been part of a series featuring the handing off of the Keys of the Kingdom. Nevertheless, 15 years before finding even this one. Happy camper, me.

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  • angelo43angelo43 Posts: 61 ✭✭✭

    Sending some older ones to Heritage in a couple weeks for auction Keep a lookout for them

  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,079 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @angelo43 I certainly will.

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  • PillarDollarCollectorPillarDollarCollector Posts: 4,662 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats!!

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    Thank you Lord for another beautiful day!!!

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 23,898 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Do you know when the original medal was first cast? Was it 1342-52 or much later?

    All glory is fleeting.
  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,079 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @291fifth I would hesitate to speculate. Theoretically, I suppose, the original would have been cast during the time of the actual papacy, but I have seen the reverse on other recasts. The original may have been cast for a series much later in time.

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  • IosephusIosephus Posts: 872 ✭✭✭

    The medal as an art form did not exist (excepting a couple of precursors) until Pisanello invented it c. 1438/9, and the earliest known contemporary medal of a pope is for Nicholas V (1455).

    This piece is from a large "restitution" series of papal medals, which Modesti identifies as Italian and from c. 1590/1600 (CNORP V, no. 1889). There were 13 stock reverse designs that were used to cover the entire series of pontiffs.

  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,079 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Iosephus Well darn, I knew you would get back with the answer!

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