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Auction: 8004 - An Important Collection of Renaissance Medals & Plaquettes
Lot: 118

Roman School (time of Sixtus IV 1471-1484) Francesco Bonsi della Ruota, bronze medal, 46mm., a fine contemporary cast, brown patina, an extremely rare medal Obverse: bust in profile to left, with long hair and wearing round cap and close fitting gown, FRANCISCVS· DE· BONNSIS· DE· FO:, the punctuation punched in Reverse: Hercules, wearing lion skin over his head and a cloak which flies out behind him, striding to the left, wielding a club in his right hand and holding the shield of the Bonsi family in his left, MCCCCLXXXIIII around References Armand II, 49, 7; Hill 817 bis Estimate £ 1,000-1,500

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