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Auction: 7023 - The Glenister Collection of British Coins & other Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 383

Naples and Sicily, Ferdinand IV (1759-1825), silver medal, 1797, by Domenico Perger, franciscvs ferdinand iv m. clementina leopoldi ii. e, conjoined busts of Crown Prince Francis and his wife Maria Clementina right, signed d. perger on truncation, spes aeterna regni below, rev. felix faustumqve sit, Cupid holding a bow and a lily, standing beside an altar which Hymen lights, Minerva seated to left, Ceres with three putti to right, four ships in the distance, aer. vulgar. anno. mdccxcvii in exergue, 71mm. (Forrer IV, 451-2; Riccardi 53 - RR), extremely fine, lightly toned, rare, in fitted case Estimate £ 3,000-4,000 Struck on the occasion of the marriage of Crown Prince Francesco, Duke of Calabria (1777-1830), the second son of Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily, to his cousin Maria Clementina, daughter of Emperor Leopold II of Austria. The couple had been married by proxy in 1790, but this medal celebrates their marriage in person at Foggia, 25 June 1797. Maria Clementina died in 1801.

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