Watch List notes:

Foreign Medals, Low Countries, Justus Lipsius (Juste Lipse, Joest Lips or Joost Lips: 1547–1606), Flemish philosopher, philologist and humanist, an electrotype copy of Jacques Jonghelinck's portrait medal, 1601, bust r., wearing ruff collar, IVSTVS LIPSIVS AET LI, rev. head of Minerva r., wearing helmet, facing fasces, shaking hands below, 45mm. (cf. Smolderen 109, pp.371-374; vL.I, 523), of museum quality, extremely fine
Lipsius would have been 51 in 1598 rather than 1601, the date on the medal's obverse. Smolderen lists 6 examples in Museum collections and a further 8 that have passed through pre-World War II auctions
(150-200 GBP)