Watch List notes:

Attributed to Girolamo Santacroce, Andrea Caraffa, as Count of Santa Severina (1496) and later Viceroy of Naples (died 1526), bronze medal, bust left wearing helmet, rev., Prudence seated, 37.5mm (Hill 349; Kress 109 = Pollard 153), pierced, bare metal, fine contemporary cast; after Caradosso, Niccolò Orsini (1442-1510), Count of Pitigliano and Nola, bronze-gilt medal, bust left, rev., Orsini on horseback, 42.5mm (Hill 667), thrice pierced, gilding worn, a contemporary cast [Clifford lots 22 and 42] (2). The medal of Orsini is a rare version of the original by Caradosso with the inscriptions altered to name the sitter as Commander of the Venetian forces. Orsini was appointed as such on 30 October 1495 by Doge Agostino Barbarigo. (250 - 300)