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Medal - Pivs IX Sistine Chapel Restoration
| Location | Papal States |
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| Year | 1872 |
| Type | Commemorative medal |
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| Obverse description | High-relief bust of Pope Pius IX facing left, wearing the white zucchetto, mozetta, and an ornately embroidered stole. The circumscribed Latin legend runs around the upper field, and the engraver's signature F. BIANCHI is inscribed in the lower field beneath the truncation. |
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| Reverse description | Detailed perspective interior view of the Sistine Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, showing the nave with flanking pilasters and columns receding toward an apsidal arch, with a ciborium at centre. A four-line Latin inscription occupies the exergue below, followed by the engraver's signature. |
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| Mintage | 1872 |
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