Watch List notes:

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Switzerland, Medals Illustrative of Roman History, Copper Medals (33), 1743, by Jean Dassier and his son Jacques-Antoine Dassier, commencing with Romulus, and among many portrait pieces, Hanibal, Cato, Anthony and Cleopatra, Virgil / Horace, Ovid and Terence etc, each 31.5mm (cf Eisler pp.183-268; cf Thompson [2000] pp.54-68). Generally extremely fine. (33)
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: £600-800