Coins and Historical Medals

Death of Oliver Cromwell, 1658, a later base metal cast, after T. Simon, armoured bust left, rev. shepherd with his flock under an olive tree, landscape in background, 49mm (Platt II, p.26, type C; MI I, 435/85; E 200); ITALY, Ludovico III Gonzaga, a late nineteenth/early twentieth century cast after a c. 1447 original, Ludovico riding right, the Gonzaga devices of a sun and sun-shaped flower in the field, 100mm (cf. Armand I, 5,13; Börner 20) [2]. Fine £100-£150