Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Netherlands, Rape of Europa, a lead roundel by P.W. van Vianen, Jupiter, as a bull, carries off Europa in the sea, her handmaidens in the foreground before a landscape of trees and hills stretching into the distance, laurel wreath border, 100mm (Weber 925; Frederiks I, 64F; Bardini 229). Very fine, pierced, inked numeral ‘58’ on reverse; a 17th-18th century cast from a late 16th century original £200-300