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

    Medal of Antoine Perrenot, Cardinal de Granvelle (recto)

      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 

      Type
      Image
      License
      Creative Commons Attribution
      Date
      16thc.
      Medium
      Dimensions
      42mm
      Location
      unknown