Auction Catalogue

24 June 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Commemorative Medals, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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№ 2178

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24 June 2009

Hammer Price:
£230

Italy, Gregorio Magalotti, c. 1535, a cast bronze medal, unsigned (by A. Lombardi), bearded bust right wearing biretta, rev. naked figure of Fortune on a dolphin, holding a veil, 77mm (Armand III, 229, L; Attwood 1991, 5). A early cast from a pierced original, good very fine, very rare £100-150

Gregorio Magalotti (†1537), canon lawyer