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WHS 18

  • WHS 18
  • Medieval
  • Papal
  • Seal (bulla)
  • Eugenius IV (Gabriele Condulmer )
  • Italy
  • 1431-1447 AD.
  • Lead
  • Struck
  • Circular
  • 36mm
  • 46.74g
  • 12h
  • Serafini I, 55
  • Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut); CNG, 287, 700 (provenance from an old English collection).
  • 2012-09-26
  • Born to a wealthy Venetian family, Eugene IV took strong action against the numerous entitlements granted to the family of his predecessor, Martin V, an act which caused a great deal of controversy, along with the Council of Basel. Improvement only began when he was forced to flee for Florence, whereupon he established a union of the Eastern and Western churches with Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaeologos.

Bare heads of Saint Paulus and Saint Petrus, respectively facing slightly right and left, each within a beaded halo, with a cruciform scepter between them,

all within a beaded border.

S PA S PE (above),

all within a beaded border.

cross | EVGEN | IVS . PP | . IIII .,


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