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Auction: 344 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at Grand Hyatt, NY INC
Lot: 697

Italian States. Parma. In Honor of Giovanni Baptista Belzoni, 1819. Medal. Bronze, 54mm. By Manfredini. The two ancient Egyptian statues of the goddess Sekhmet, which Belzoni donated to the city, facing left, rev. Eight-line legend. Explorer, actor and engineer, Giovanni Baptista Belzoni (1778-1823), known as "the Great Belzoni", discovered and documented the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I, opened the second pyramid of Giza, cleared the Great Temple of Abu Simbel of sand and excavated at Karnak. Silvery birch-brown over some light contact marks in fields. About Uncirculated.

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