Object Description
88 URBAN VIII Barberini, Pope 1623-44 1632
Obv. Bust to right, wearing cope. Around, VRBANVS* VIII* PONT* MAX * A * VIIII; on truncation, M . DC . XXXII . ; below truncation, A . ASTESSANO . F
Rev. Aerial view of the port of Civitavecchia flanked by two bees. Around, NVNC RE PERFECTO
Gilt bronze, struck, 43 mm.
New fortifications of the port of Civitavecchia.
Bibl.: Mazio, no. 193; Venuti, p. 232, no. 25; Bonnani, p. 586, no. 24; Forrer 8, p. 309; Bertolotti, pp. 221, 222; Martinori, fasc. xiv, p. 90 (records paying six scudi to A. Astesano for expenses of trip to Civitavecchia to take the plan for the reverse of the medal, made for the festival of Saints Peter and Paul); p. 60 (obverse designed by G. Mola); Bulgari i, p. 79 (record of the assay of the medal in gold, 12 July 1632); Bartolotti, no. E.632; Houston, no. 248 (very similar medal with obverse by Mola, dated 1634).