Watch List notes:

Commemorative Medals, Italy, Francesco Redi (1626-1696), physician to the Grand Dukes, entomologist and poet, cast bronze portrait medal, 1684, by Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi (1656-1740), draped bust r., with long hair, wearing gown and open shirt, FRANCISCVS. REDI. PATRITIVS. ARETINVS., rev. Minerva, a spear in her left hand, uncovering Nature, before a temple, signed in ex. M. SOLDANVS. F., 88mm. (V&T.37; Bargello 7838; Clifford 298; Johnson 140, fig.127; Lankheit 121; Brettauer 951; M&E Lankheit 711), good very fine with dark patination, minute piercing in rim
The Alan Irvine Collection of Historical and Artistic Medals (400-500 GBP)