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Auction: 13015 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 471

Italy, Bologna, Galeazzo Marescotti (1407-1503), bronze medal by Antonio Marescotti, insignis: eqvestris: ordinis: d: galeaz: marescott, bust left wearing cap and decorated gown, vr: patrici below, rev. loialment: seiis: dofier: above, antonivs marescoti. f. below, around a column broken by a storm, mai: piv: to left, all within a braid of hair, 94mm. (Armand I, 29, 5; Hill Corpus 86; TN.I, XV, 2), small piercing at 12 o'clock, very fine and attractive

The reverse legend should read sans dotier. Hill notes that the example in the Berlin museum reads the same and comments 'evidently a later, presumably blundered, version.' There are other examples with the dofier reading in the Museo Civico, Bologna, and the Castello Sforzesco, Milan.

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