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Auction: 8019 - Ancient, English, Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 204

Alexander Farnese, Vice-Chancellor, 1575, cast bronze medal by Giovanni Melone, bust right, wearing cape and hood, signed on truncation, IO. V. MELON. F., rev. façade of the Gesu in Rome, 1575 in exergue, 49mm. (Armand I, 264, 3; Bargello 654), small neat hole at top, very fine, an attractive cast with good patina Estimate £ 400-600 Provenance Spink, An Important Collection of Renaissance and Baroque Medals, 21 May 1996, lot 113

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