Lot Archive

Lot

№ 646

.

29 November 2001

Estimate: £40–£60

Italy, Visit of Louis XII and Anne of Britanny to Lyon, 1500, bronze medal, after Leclerc (and greatly reduced), busts right and left with background of lis and ermines, 71mm (cf. BMC 15); Catherine de Medici, uniface bronze medal, c.1570, after Pillon, bust three-quarters left, 72mm (BMC 115) [2]. Both 1930s restrikes, extremely fine and virtually as struck (£40-60)