Vatican, Papal States. An Order Of St. Sylvester In Gold, Knight C.1855 Auction With the beginning of the

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Vatican, Papal States. An Order Of St. Sylvester In Gold, Knight C.1855 Auction With the beginning of the(Ordine di San Silvestro Papa). Instituted 1841. 1841 1870 issue. An early example in Gold, possibly of French manufacture, consisting of an enameled white Maltese Cross, with a rotating spur on the 6 oclock arm, featuring clusters of Gold rays in each quadrant, obverse centre exhibiting a superposed Gold portrait of St. Sylvestre on an enameled blue field, surrounded by the inscription SANC. SILVESTER P. M., plain reverse with central medallion