Watch List notes:

VII Olympic Winter Games, Cortina d'Ampezzo. 1956. AV Participation Medal (31mm, 18.22 g, 12h). Issued to Bruno Bonfiglio, Executive Committee Member. Designed by Costanzo Affer. VII GIOCHI OLIMPICI INVERNALI, female head facing, wearing Olympic rings; to right torch with flames curling around behind head to form hair; LORIOLI to right of torch / COMITATO OLYMPICO NAZIONALE ITALIANO, Bruno Bonfiglio engraved in script in two lines; in exergue, star flanked by 750 hallmark. Superb EF, matte finish.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A Adams. Ex O'Neil 71 (1 June 2013), lot 422.