Watch List notes:

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Switzerland, Medals Illustrative of Roman History, The Complete Set of Sixty Copper Medals, 1743, by Jean Dassier and his son Jacques-Antoine Dassier, commencing with Romulus, the Rape of the Sabine Women, the remainder including many portrait pieces, each 31.5mm, contained in a contemporary green velvet-lined black snakeskin leather fitted case, the medals in six rows of ten (Catenacci, A, Roma...; BDM I, p.514; Eisler pp.183-268; Thompson [2000] pp.54-68). Medals extremely fine, the case in good order though lacking clasps, the complete set very rare. (60)
In 1740 Dassier undertook the making of the set for sale by subscription and it was finished in 1743. The first full account being published in Paris in 1778, Explication des médailles gravées par J. Dassier et fils représentant une suite de sujets tirés de l'Histoire romaine,' &c.

Estimate: £1500-2000