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Auction: 8019 - Ancient, English, Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 191

Hercules, c.1540, cast bronze medal by a Paduan medallist with the monogram HB, large bust of Hercules, bearded, right, wearing lion´s skin around neck, rev. Hercules standing, wearing lion´s skin and leaning on spear, a messenger at left carrying the shirt of Nessus, in exergue monogram HB and a bird, 40mm. (Attwood 298; Habich p.111, plate LXXVI, 15; Kress 411), better than very fine and a very good cast Estimate £ 400-600 Provenance Spink, An Important Collection of Renaissance and Baroque Medals, 21 May 1996, lot 176

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