Watch List notes:

World Medals, Spain, Juan de Herrera (1530 –1597), Architect and Mathematician, bronze medal, 1578, by Jacopo Nizolla da Trezzo (1515/1519-1589), signed IAc tr 1578, bearded bust l. in ruff collar, rev. figure of Architecture seated before classical building, in ex. DEO ET OPT PRINC, 50mm. (Pollard [2007] 507; Kress 440; Arm I, 242, 8; M Cano Cuesta [Prado] 1), somewhat knocked and bruised, fine
Under the patronage of Philip II, Herrera was the architect of the Palace at Escoril.
(55-65 GBP)