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Auction 80  13-14 June 2016
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Lot 72

Estimate: 600 GBP
Price realized: 600 GBP
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*Antonio Selvi (1679-1753), Sir Thomas Dereham (1674-1739), bronze medal, 1715 or 1719, bust right, aged 36, rev., Virtue resting her arm on an angel and turning her back on Fortune, 85.5mm (VT 143 [86.5mm]; MI, 447/54), some weakness in the cast, very fine and rare [Clifford lot 316]. Thomas Dereham of Norfolk was brought up in Tuscany. He embraced the Catholic faith and endowed the College for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome with a grant for two students to be sent as missionaries to England. (600 - 800)
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