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Italy, Pietro Bembo, 1823, a bronze medal by A.H. Veyrat for Durand’s Series Numismatica, bust right, reverse legend, 41mm (BDM VI, 258). Virtually as struck (£30-50)

Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), poet, author, secretary to Pope Leo X, appointed Cardinal, 1539