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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 3711094, member: 42773&quot;]I recently had this beautiful Baroque Papal Medal in my possession which is leaving my hands tomorrow to go to a worthy member of this forum...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/x1dqc9SD/Alexander-VIII.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="2"><font size="4"> PAPAL STATES. Alexander VIII, 1689-1691</font></font></p><p><font size="2"><font size="4">AR plated AE medal, 16.4g, 32mm, 12h. Struck 1690.</font></font></p><p><font size="2"><font size="4"><i>Obv</i>.: ALEXAN· - VIII·PONT:M:A:I·; Bust right; HAMERAN in small letters below bust; dotted border.</font></font></p><p><font size="2"><font size="4"><i>Rev</i>.: SVAVITATE; Ornate thurible; billowing clouds of smoke above // 1690</font></font></p><p><font size="2"><font size="4"><i>Ex-Kerry Wetterstrom</i></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Alexander VIII reigned from 1689 to 1691. He was the last pope in history to take the pontifical name Alexander. It was actually the ambassador of Louis XIV that managed to secure Alexander’s election – France was hoping for more influence over the Vatican. However, after months of negotiation, the new pope condemned the liberties of the Gallican church. The medal was engraved by Giocanni Hamerani, the father of a family of engravers that served the papacy, <a href="https://coinsweekly.com/200-years-of-service-for-the-popes-hamerani-the-dynasty-of-medallists/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinsweekly.com/200-years-of-service-for-the-popes-hamerani-the-dynasty-of-medallists/" rel="nofollow">see this interesting article</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of you know that I&#039;m not a coin dealer in real life, but rather a classical musician. Here is my own recording of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Pieterszoon_Sweelinck" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Pieterszoon_Sweelinck" rel="nofollow">Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck&#039;s</a> <i>Chromatic Fantasy</i>. Sweelinck was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue who lived a generation before the Hamerani engravers, but the music and medallic sculpture share the same Baroque complexity and impeccable craftsmanship...</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]Dzz9OeUYA7k[/MEDIA]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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