Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli of Rome, 1939–1958. Medal for the Pontiff's 80th birthday, 1956 (Silver, 44.00 mm, 34.91 g) Opus: Mistruzzi. PIVS XII PONTIFEX MAXIMVS ANNO MCMLVI, Bust left, wearing zucchetto and a stole richly ornamented with arabesques and the image of the Good Shepherd. Rev. IVSTITI/AE VINDEX / CARIT/ATIS ALTOR / POPVL/ORVM / PROVEHIT PACEM, within a three-bayed tabernacle-shaped aedicula surmounted by the inscription IVSTITIA CARITAS PAX, the personifications of the three virtues of the papal programme: in the first bay Justice, a female figure with his sword laid down and the scales in his hand; in the second Charity, as the Virgin and Child with an orphan clinging to her robes; in the third Peace, a female figure with the dove. Cusumano–Modesti 242. De Luca 240. In its original burgundy leather case, tooled along the edges and at the four corners, with the gilt coat of arms of Pio XII impressed at the centre. Iridescent toning. Mirror fields. Proof. Struck for the eightieth birthday of the Pope, born in Rome on 2 March 1876, the medal renders in imagery his heraldic motto "Opus iustitiae pax" through the triad Iustitia – Caritas – Pax, recurrent throughout the medallic output of the pontificate. Silver.

Lotto n. 422

Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli of Rome, 1939–1958. Medal for the Pontiff's 80th birthday, 1956 (Silver, 44.00 mm, 34.91 g) Opus: Mistruzzi. PIVS XII PONTIFEX MAXIMVS ANNO MCMLVI, Bust left, wearing zucchetto and a stole richly ornamented with arabesques and the image of the Good Shepherd. Rev. IVSTITI/AE VINDEX / CARIT/ATIS ALTOR / POPVL/ORVM / PROVEHIT PACEM, within a three-bayed tabernacle-shaped aedicula surmounted by the inscription IVSTITIA CARITAS PAX, the personifications of the three virtues of the papal programme: in the first bay Justice, a female figure with his sword laid down and the scales in his hand; in the second Charity, as the Virgin and Child with an orphan clinging to her robes; in the third Peace, a female figure with the dove. Cusumano–Modesti 242. De Luca 240. In its original burgundy leather case, tooled along the edges and at the four corners, with the gilt coat of arms of Pio XII impressed at the centre. Iridescent toning. Mirror fields. Proof. Struck for the eightieth birthday of the Pope, born in Rome on 2 March 1876, the medal renders in imagery his heraldic motto "Opus iustitiae pax" through the triad Iustitia – Caritas – Pax, recurrent throughout the medallic output of the pontificate. Silver.

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