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Electronic Auction 397  17 May 2017
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Lot 854

Estimate: 150 USD
Price realized: 130 USD
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temp TUDOR. John Kendal, general of the Knights of Rhodes. Circa 1400-1485. Æ Medal (56mm, 99.6 g, 12h). Ottoman Siege of Rhodes. After Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli. Dated 1480 (in Roman numerals, though a later electrotype). IO KENDAL RHODI TVRCVPELLERIVS, bust right / + TEMPORE OBSIDIONIS TVRCHORVM MCCCCLXXX, coat-of-arms. MI 17/3; Eimer 19; Hill 934. EF. The first medal to depict an Englishman.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.
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