Medal of Antoine Perrenot, Cardinal de Granvelle (verso)

recto: bust wearing hooded cassock; trace of signature on truncation; rev., Aeneas’s ship in stormy waters (Attwood 987; Kress 635 = Pollard 432), suspension loop damaged, fine contemporary cast with brown patina

Comments

Sold by Morten & Eden at auction in June 2016 for 320 GBP; https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=1566&lot=53 

Associated Passages
Date
16thc.
Medium
Dimensions
42mm
Inscription
DVRATE ("persevere," Vergil, Aeneid 1.207)
Location
unknown