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Pius IX
Ignazio Bianchi (Italian, active 1848–1869)
Italian (Rome)
1865
Mint: Rome, Italy
Medium/Technique
Metal; bronze
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 82 mm, 260.5 gm (3 1/4 in., 9.19 oz.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Helen O. Bigelow
Accession NumberRES.23.174
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
DescriptionCircular medal of Pope Pius IX (1792-1878).
Obverse: Profile bust of Pius IX looking to proper right, wearing cap and lowered hood with floral linework pattern at edge; inscribed at edge "PIVS·IX·PONT·MAX·" and under bust "I·BIANCH·S·".
Reverse: View of piazza before Saint Paul's; inscribed at edge "[flower] PIVS·IX·P·M·FRONTEM·ET·PRONAVM·BASILICAE·PAVLI·APOSTOLI·AB·INCENDIO·NOBILIVS·RESTITVIT" and in exergue "AN·MDCCCLXV/AL·POLETTI·ARCH·INV·/I·BIANCHI·S·".
Obverse: Profile bust of Pius IX looking to proper right, wearing cap and lowered hood with floral linework pattern at edge; inscribed at edge "PIVS·IX·PONT·MAX·" and under bust "I·BIANCH·S·".
Reverse: View of piazza before Saint Paul's; inscribed at edge "[flower] PIVS·IX·P·M·FRONTEM·ET·PRONAVM·BASILICAE·PAVLI·APOSTOLI·AB·INCENDIO·NOBILIVS·RESTITVIT" and in exergue "AN·MDCCCLXV/AL·POLETTI·ARCH·INV·/I·BIANCHI·S·".
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "PIVS·IX·PONT·MAX·" and under bust "I·BIANCH·S·".
Reverse: Inscribed at edge "[flower] PIVS·IX·P·M·FRONTEM·ET·PRONAVM·BASILICAE·PAVLI·APOSTOLI·AB·INCENDIO·NOBILIVS·RESTITVIT" and in exergue "AN·MDCCCLXV/AL·POLETTI·ARCH·INV·/I·BIANCHI·S·".
Reverse: Inscribed at edge "[flower] PIVS·IX·P·M·FRONTEM·ET·PRONAVM·BASILICAE·PAVLI·APOSTOLI·AB·INCENDIO·NOBILIVS·RESTITVIT" and in exergue "AN·MDCCCLXV/AL·POLETTI·ARCH·INV·/I·BIANCHI·S·".
Provenance1923, Helen O. Bigelow; 1923, bequest of Helen O. Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 3, 1923)