A beautiful piece with excellent details, with single cuts on the obverse.
Obverse: papal bust to the right, below it signature SPERANZA, in the rim legend:
PIUS-IX-PON-MAX-AN-L-EX-QVO-SACRATVS-EST-EPISCOPVS MDCCCLXXVII;
Reverse: personifications of cities paying homage to the pope, on the line of signature section GALLI-INV- SPERANZA, in section:
LAETAMINI-IN-DOMINO/QVIA-DEDIT-VOBIS/DOCTOREM-IVST-/JOEL-11-23-;
Bronze, diameter 61 mm, weight 103.66 g.
