Bust facing to left with bonnet, mozzetta and stole. Legend with the year of the Pontificate around and name of the engraver under the truncation.
Obverse lettering
PIVS • XII • PONTIFEX • MAXIMVS • YEAR
• XVI
MISTRVZZI
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
The Pope on the left, kneeling in prayer before the Statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna. Legend around and Roman date in the exergue.
Reverse lettering
MARIALEM • ANNVM • RELIGION •
AVSPICATVRI
MCMLIV (Translation: Long to the Marian religious year 1954)
