ITALY, VENICE
Girolamo Priuli (1559-1567)
Bronze medal, unsigned, 1561, 61.59g, 61mm, Doge seated left, wearing a corno and the ducal cloth, HIE PRIOL VENE DVX III AN AE LXXV Il, rev. Venice seated next to the sea, holding a palm and a sceptre, a galley to left, AN SAL MDLXI DV LXXXVIVR CON MCXLI, ADRIA REGI MARIS (Voltolino 517 ; Armand II 224, 2 (corrected in III 271b) ; T.N. I 29, 1).
PROVENANCE: Dupriez
Later cast, holed in edge at 12 o'clock, very fine.