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Auction: 8019 - Ancient, English, Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 218

Francesco Redi, 1680, cast bronze medal by Massimiliano Soldani, draped bust of Redi to right, signed on truncation M. SOLDANVS F rev. a large galley, 63mm. (Johnson 139, fig.122; VT.6), very fine, most attractive, rare Estimate £ 300-400 Francesco Redi (1626-98), a man of considerable learning, was a poet, a lawyer, a doctor and biologist, and a philosopher.

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