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Auction: 25007 - … British and World Coins and Medals featuring The Oriole Collection of Gold and Silver English Coins
Lot: 449

Italy, Alessandro Tartagni, lawyer of Imola (1421-1477), Bronze Medal, by Sperandio of Mantua, undated, ALEXANDER • TARTAGNVS • IVRE CONSVLTISSIMVS • AC • VERITATIS • INTERPREX •, draped bust left, rev. • VIGILANTIA • FLORVI •, Mercury seated on dragon upon Mount Parnassus, dividing • OPVS • SP - ERANDEI •, • PARNASVS • below, 87mm, 214.97g (Hill 381B; Vernon Hall coll. 60 (89mm); Pollard 98 var.), pierced, cleaned and with scratches to obverse field, with old patina mostly remaining, about very fine, an early cast

Provenance

Morton & Eden, 29-30 November 2011, lot 339

There are three varieties of this medal, this example being the second. All are believed to have been produced after Tartagni's death in 1477. Mercury represents Eloquence and the dragon Vigilance, both appropriate virtues for a lawyer.

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Estimate
£500 to £700

Starting price
£400