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Super Hanc Petram The Architectural Medals of the Vatican Basilica and the Homage of the Pilgrims to St. Peter

Md.Pont.PiusVI.74

Ferdinando Hamerani, Annual medal of the 9th year of pontificate celebrating the construction of the New sacristy in St. Peter's, 1783, gold, 44.00 mm, 32.41 

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The New Sacristy in St. Peter was the most significant work created during the pontificate of Pius VI. The construction began in 1776 and, even if the works were terminated only in 1786, it was celebrated by the annual medal of 1783, as it was almost completed in its essential structures.

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