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LOT 1928
Medieval Pope Boniface IX Lead Papal Bulla
1389-1404 A.D.
1 1/2 in. (51.7 grams, 36 mm).
The obverse depicting the busts of St Peter and St Paul each within an inverted pear-shaped compartment defined by pellets; cross pattee supported on a staff between the busts and at the top of the bulla in the centre letters 'SPASPE', abbreviations for St Paul and St Peter; reverse inscribed over three lines 'BONI / FATIVS:/ PP:VIIII', with an omega above the letters 'PP'; both obverse and reverse faces with a pelletted perimeter. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found UK.
Property of a Worlingworth, Suffolk, UK, private collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Footnotes
Pope Boniface IX, born Pietro Tomacelli, was the 204th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1389 to 1404. He served during the Western Schism, a period where rival claimants to the papacy existed in both Rome and Avignon.
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