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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Wehwalt, post: 1834563, member: 33595&quot;]I bought it because I couldn&#039;t find much to buy there and for me it was the standout item!&nbsp; I think it was 2000 yen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple of Vatican medals.&nbsp; The older one I bought in Rome, the Paul VI one I got on eBay.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]303699[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303700[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is the 1972 (Paul VI year VIII) medal in the Vatican&#039;s long-standing series of annual Papal medals, bronze version (they come in bronze, silver and gold).&nbsp; They also issue them for Sede Vacante.&nbsp; The first Francis medal was hastily withdrawn after they misspelled &quot;JESUS&quot;, meant to be &quot;IESUS&quot;, as &quot;LESUS&quot;.&nbsp; That got an article in Coin World.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]303702[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303703[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The second one seems to be a medal for a meeting between Pope Pius IX (he&#039;s the one who became a Prisoner of the Vatican, withdrawing inside when Italian reunification took the Papal States away from him) and Ferdinand II of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (cap. Naples).&nbsp; One side has the colonnade of St. Peter&#039;s Square and part of the Basilica, with the other side I think I recognize as the palace in Naples.&nbsp; In the background of one side is I guess a scene from the Roman domains, on the other, you can see Vesuvius puffing away behind Naples![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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