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Numismatics
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Ruler: Pope Sixtus V, Italian, 1520–1590
Mint: Ancona

Papal Testone of Sixtus V from Ancona

1588

Silver

9.04 g, 2:00, 32.3 mm
Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Professor Alfred R. Bellinger
2001.87.33769
Geography: 
Made in Ancona, Italy
Status: 
By appointment
Culture: 
Papal
Period: 
16th century
Classification: 
Numismatics
Provenance: 

Professor Alfred R. Bellinger, New Haven, Conn., by 1978; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., by 1978–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

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