Commemorative Medals, Foreign Medals, Italy, Francesco I Sforza (1401-1466), fourth Duke of Milan, by Gianfrancesco Enzola (active 1455-1478), cast bronze medal, 1456, bust r., in plain armour, V - F to either side, FR SFORTIA ... MCCCCLVI, rev. greyhound seated under tree, hand issuing from the clouds reaches to touch it, IO FR ENZOLAE PARMENSIS OPVS, 42mm. (Hill, Corpus 281; Arm I, 44/6; Pollard, 2007, 135; Kress 92), a contemporary cast with brown patina, dark on obverse, very fine and rare
*ex Baldwin's vault
Gianfrancesco Enzola (active 1455-1478), medallist, goldsmith and die engraver, primarily employed by the Sforzas.
(200-300 GBP)