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LOT 1865
Medieval Pope Gregory IX Lead Papal Bulla
1227-1241 A.D.
1 1/2 in. (47.8 grams, 39 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 'GRE/GORIVS./PP.VIIII', with an omega above the letters 'PP'; both obverse and reverse faces with a pelletted perimeter. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound 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.
Pope Gregory IX, born Ugolino di Conti, was the 178th Pope of the Catholic Church, reigning from 1227 to 1241. He is known for his strong defence of papal authority, his role in the Crusades, and his establishment of the Papal Inquisition.
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