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World Historical Medals from Various Properties
History of the Roman Republic, silver medals (54) by J. Dassier & Sons [struck c. 1748], comprising 54 of the original set of 60, viz. Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Horatii & Curiatii, Oath of Brutus, Lucius Junius Brutus, Horatius Cocles, Meeting of the Senate and the People, Coriolanus, The Fabians, Twelve Tablets of the Law, Cato the Censor, Donation of the Roman women, Camillus, Execution of Manlius's son, Decius Mus, Creation of principal roads, Pyrrhus, Pyrrhus & Cineas, Fabricius & Pyrrhus, Victory at Myle, Regulus, Fall of Saguntum, Hannibal, Hannibal's Victories, L. Aemilius Paullus, Fabius & Minucius, Hannibal before the gates of Rome, Marcellus, Scipio Africanus, Victory at Zama, Conquest of Asia Minor, Scipio defends his honour, Sons of L. Aemilius Paullus, Scipio Aemilianus & Laelius, Revolt of the Gracchi, Marius, Marius at Carthage, Sulla, Pompey, Cicero, First Triumvirate, Suicide of Mithridates, Exile of Cicero, Caesar crosses the Rubicon, Caesar's boat in a storm, Julius Caesar, Cato the Younger, Marcus Brutus, Second Triumvirate, Antony & Cleopatra, Augustus, Marcus Agrippa & Maecenas, Virgil & Horace, Ovid & Terence, each 32mm (Eisler 267, 269-87, 289-97, 299, 301-15, 317-25) [54]. Some lightly cleaned, otherwise good very fine or better
£3,000-£4,000
History of the Roman Republic, silver medals (54) by J. Dassier & Sons [struck c. 1748], comprising 54 of the original set of 60, viz. Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Horatii & Curiatii, Oath of Brutus, Lucius Junius Brutus, Horatius Cocles, Meeting of the Senate and the People, Coriolanus, The Fabians, Twelve Tablets of the Law, Cato the Censor, Donation of the Roman women, Camillus, Execution of Manlius's son, Decius Mus, Creation of principal roads, Pyrrhus, Pyrrhus & Cineas, Fabricius & Pyrrhus, Victory at Myle, Regulus, Fall of Saguntum, Hannibal, Hannibal's Victories, L. Aemilius Paullus, Fabius & Minucius, Hannibal before the gates of Rome, Marcellus, Scipio Africanus, Victory at Zama, Conquest of Asia Minor, Scipio defends his honour, Sons of L. Aemilius Paullus, Scipio Aemilianus & Laelius, Revolt of the Gracchi, Marius, Marius at Carthage, Sulla, Pompey, Cicero, First Triumvirate, Suicide of Mithridates, Exile of Cicero, Caesar crosses the Rubicon, Caesar's boat in a storm, Julius Caesar, Cato the Younger, Marcus Brutus, Second Triumvirate, Antony & Cleopatra, Augustus, Marcus Agrippa & Maecenas, Virgil & Horace, Ovid & Terence, each 32mm (Eisler 267, 269-87, 289-97, 299, 301-15, 317-25) [54]. Some lightly cleaned, otherwise good very fine or better
£3,000-£4,000