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Auction 40  11 January 2017
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Lot 1439

Estimate: 500 USD
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WORLD COINS, ITALY, Renaissance. Hercules. Cast oval Bronze Medal, undated, 38 mm x 33 mm, 48.3g, by Giovanni da Cavino. Powerful laureate head right, cast as if 'set' with the obverse of a coin of Bruttium (Kroton) with head of Hera Lakinia. The obverse a sharp casting. The reverse a most unusual flight of fantasy by the medalist. (cf. Attwood 298; Hill, Corpus, 411; Kress 411; Pollard (2007) 468). Choice very fine.

from the collection of medals formed by William Victor Royle Baldwin (known as Roy or Uncle Roy), one of A H Baldwin & Sons Ltd founder's three sons, he was born in 1893
Normally with the reverse showing a messenger bringing the hero the shirt of Nessus, and because of the initials on the reverse attributed to 'The Monogrammist H B'.

Estimate: $ 500
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