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Auction: 8019 - Ancient, English, Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 186

Padua, Church of San Giustina, 1515, bronze cast medal, conjoined busts of St Prosdocimus, bearded, mitred, and wearing a cope, and St Giustina, crowned and holding palm in right hand, a dagger plunged into her breast, CC below, rev. legend in six lines, 45mm. (Armand III, 150G; Hill, Corpus, 547; Oppenheimer collection (ex Lanna 357), stippled fields, nearly very fine Estimate £ 80-120 The letters CC below the bust are proposed by one source (cf. Armand) as belonging to the Paduan goldsmith Coreto Gagnoli.

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