Watch List notes:

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), astronomer and naturalist. Cast medal in the first quarter of the seventeenth century; AE (g 70,4; mm 54,2); GALILEVS DE GALILEIS FLORENTINVS, bust with long beard to the left. Rv. ARCHIMEDES, written in the field. Börner 1862, Bargello II, 259; Toderi-Vannel 1990, 37, 15.
Beautiful posterior cast. vf.