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Auction: 17006 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 496

Italy, Rome, Domenico Fontana (1543-1607), bronze medal 1589, by Domenico Poggini, bust right, rev, four obelisks, 38mm. (Arm. II, 63,6; Attwood 825; Pollard Bargello 840), later cast, depression in obverse, good fine

A medal popular with students and lovers of architecture, this reverse shows the four obelisks erected by Fontana, on the instruction of Pope Sixtus V, in front of St Peter's (1586), Sta. Maria Maggiore (1587), S. Giovanni in Laterano (1588), and in the Piazza del Popolo (1589).

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Estimate
£80 to £100