Description
Pope Innocent XI, Christian Alliance against the Turks, Bronze Medal (35mm/25.26gm) 1684 by Giovanni Hamerani. Bust right wearing cap and cope. Rev, four crowns placed on an altar, HABETO NOS FOEDOERATOS ET SERVIEMVS TIBI (Linc 1454; Roma 129; Miselli 141, 139a; BDM II, 401). Extremely Fine, pleasantly toned and retaining some original lustre around the legend.
The Alliance – the Holy League of the Empire – was between the Pope, represented on the medal’s reverse with his tiara, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, John III Sobieski of Poland (both crowns) and Marc Antonio Giustiniani, Doge of Venice (cap).
