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Looking for a real market value for this kind of rare papal medal
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I don’t trust the AI results. Someone here may have a lot more real time knowledge for something like this. It is an error and a lot of them were pulled (so-called pulled) from the marketplace when the error was discovered, but what I’m looking for is just a real market value for this thing if anyone knows let me know. Thanks for your help in advance.
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The error is in the word, Lesus should read Jesus
The court jester does not play, but gently pulls the strings…
I spotted the error as soon as I looked at the photo. It should actually read IESUS since Latin does not use the J.
I'm surprised that an error like that made it into production.
It made the mainstream global news headlines back when it was issued in October 2013:
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24489512
Yahoo: https://au.news.yahoo.com/vatican-misspells-jesus-name-19358085.html
Coin World: https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/vatican-withdraws-medal-with-lesus-for-jesus.html
Due to the coverage, and the very small number of medals that escaped the official withdrawal and destruction ("An unknown but likely extremely small number of the medals were sold", according to the Coin World article), I'd suspect the market value will be higher than would be typical for either an "error medal" or a "Vatican medal". But I suspect that due to the very niche collector market and very low numbers, the only way to truly determine a "true market value" would be to auction it.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
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