Medal: Pope Marcellus II
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The obverse shows a portrait of Pope Marcellus II; on
the reverse is a depiction of Ecclesia, represented as a
seated woman reading the Gospels and holding a rudder.
Marcellus II (Marcello Cervini, 1501 – 1555), was pope
for only twenty-two days in 1555. The woman on the reverse as Prudence or a personification of the Church ruling the world
with the rudder and reading the Gospels. This is a dull
cast after a worn original, possibly from the seventeenth
or eighteenth century.
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