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15 Giovanni Alvise Toscani, lawyer, orator and Latin poet, ca. 1450-1478 Cast bronze medal, undated
(around 1475), Rome. (Ø 71,3 mm; 123,16 gr) IOHANNES ALOISIVS TVSCANVS ADVOCATVS. Bust
left, wearing cap and gown. Pearled border // INCERTVM IVRISCONSVLTVS ORATOR AN POETA
PRESTANTIOR, in formal laurel-wreath. Pearled border.
Rare. Two suspension holes. Extremely fine contemporary cast 5.000.-
Armand II, p. 28, n°12 (Ø 71 mm); Hill, Corpus I, p. 210, n°813 (Ø 70-72 mm); Hill & Pollard (Kress Coll.) -.
Provenance: Collection A. M.
Auction Münzen & Medaillen 90, Basel (Switzerland), 14 June 2000, lot n°414.

ANONYMOUS.

16 Giuliano della Rovere, later Pope Julius II, 1443-1513. Cast bronze medal, undated (1483). (Ø 36,1 mm;
26,14 gr) IVL EPISC OSTIEN. Bust left, tonsured, wearing cope with engraved flowered ornament //
CARD S P ADVINC. The fortress of Ostia with three fortified towers, on the river.
Rare. Very fine old cast 500.-
Armand II, p. 110, n°3 (Ø 34 mm); Hill, Corpus I, p. 211, n°817 (Ø 35-37 mm); Hill & Pollard (Kress Coll.) -.
Provenance: Collection A. M.
Auction Sternberg XXVII, Zurich (Switzerland), 7 November 1994, lot n°657.

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