St. Anicetus (155-66) Cast Bronze Medal

St. Anicetus (155-66) Cast Bronze Medal Photo

Cast bronze restitution medal of Pope St. Anicetus by Giovanni Battista Pozzo. J.N.D. Kelly (via the Oxford Dictionary of Popes) states that it is probably Anicetus who erected the memorial shrine for St. Peter on the Vatican Hill which was familiar to visitors c.200 and which was revealed by the 1939-49 excavations.

100.00
Anicetus
Unstated
Fine
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155 - 166
Papal States
Bronze
40mm
34.4g
Giovanni Battista Pozzo
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