Live auction - fme_1106461 - VATICAN - PIUS XI (Achille Ratti) Médaille, Anniversaire de la constitution de l’état de la Cité du Vatican
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Anniversaire de la constitution de l’état de la Cité du Vatican
Date: 1930
Metal : silver
Diameter : 43,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver MISTRUZZI Aurelio (1880-1960)
Weight : 38,91 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Beaux reliefs malgré l’aspect nettoyé de la médaille, visible par les frottements dans les champs. Quelques fines rayures
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : PIVS. XI. PONT. - MAX. AN. IX., PONCTUATION PAR TRIANGLE.
Obverse description : Buste de profil à droite, avec calotte, mosette et étole. Signé ; MISTRVZZI.
Reverse
Reverse legend : À L’EXERGUE : A. CIVITATE. VATICANA / CONDITA / ANNO. I ; PONCTUATION PAR TRIANGLE.
Reverse description : Vue aérienne sur la ville Sainte ; deux anges portant les armoiries du Saint-Siège.
Historical background
VATICAN - PIUS XI (Achille Ratti)
(1922-1939)
Born in 1857, Achille Ratti was a priest in 1879. He was nuncio in Warsaw between 1918 and 1921, then became cardinal-archbishop of Milan and succeeded Benedict XV on February 6, 1922 under the name of Pius XI. "Pope of the missions", he is also very attached to making the Christian spirit penetrate into legislation and is at the origin of numerous concordats with Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Portugal, the Baltic States. He also obtained the restoration of normal relations with the Italian State during the Lateran Agreements (1929). Faced with the rise of communist and facist powers, he recalls Christian values, particularly in the face of atheism..
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