Watch List notes:

Commemorative Medals, Foreign Medals, Italy, Cardinal Carlo Borromeo (1338-1584), Canonization, silver medal, unsigned and undated (1610), bust l., hand on breast, wearing biretta, rev. two winged cherubs support the word 'humilitas' and crown, 36.5mm., original 'tear-drop' suspension loop, very fine, dark tone, very rare
Carlo Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, was a prominent representative of the Catholic reformers after the Council of Trent. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint.
(250-300 GBP)