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Venice. Francesco Morosini silver "Victory over the Turks" Medal 1687 MS62 PCGS, Voltolina-1057. 42mm. By G. Hautsch, Nürnberg. A spectacular silver medal struck to commemorate the Venetian victories in the wars against the Turks, featuring an earthen base of tone and appreciable underlying iridescence. The high-relief devices are remarkable--the obverse design features two angels blowing trumpets and holding a wreath over the centralized, oval cartouche of Doge Francesco Morosini and the similarly styled portraits of the governor of Dalmatia, Girolamo Corner and General Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck. The reverse elements are equally intriguing with six oval cartouches, surrounded by intertwined laurel wreaths and olive branches that display the captured fortresses of Mistra, Castelnovo, Castel Tornese, Athens, Corinth, Patras, and Lepanto with the date 1687 below. Issued in 1688 when Francesco Morosini became Doge. A very scarce type in silver. An example similar to the present hammered at 4,000 Swiss Francs in a 2011 Nomos auction, and this exact specimen subsequently realized $4,000 in our own 2016 NYINC Signature Auction #3044 (January 2016, Lot 30326).
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HID02906262019
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Estimate: 2500-3000 USD
Venice. Francesco Morosini silver "Victory over the Turks" Medal 1687 MS62 PCGS, Voltolina-1057. 42mm. By G. Hautsch, Nürnberg. A spectacular silver medal struck to commemorate the Venetian victories in the wars against the Turks, featuring an earthen base of tone and appreciable underlying iridescence. The high-relief devices are remarkable--the obverse design features two angels blowing trumpets and holding a wreath over the centralized, oval cartouche of Doge Francesco Morosini and the similarly styled portraits of the governor of Dalmatia, Girolamo Corner and General Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck. The reverse elements are equally intriguing with six oval cartouches, surrounded by intertwined laurel wreaths and olive branches that display the captured fortresses of Mistra, Castelnovo, Castel Tornese, Athens, Corinth, Patras, and Lepanto with the date 1687 below. Issued in 1688 when Francesco Morosini became Doge. A very scarce type in silver. An example similar to the present hammered at 4,000 Swiss Francs in a 2011 Nomos auction, and this exact specimen subsequently realized $4,000 in our own 2016 NYINC Signature Auction #3044 (January 2016, Lot 30326).
https://coins.ha.com/itm/italy/italy-venice-francesco-morosini-silver-victory-over-the-turks-medal-1687-ms62-pcgs-/a/3085-31784.s?type=CoinArchives3085
HID02906262019
© 2020 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved
Estimate: 2500-3000 USD