Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

Italy, Giovanni Sbaraglia, c. 1700, copper medal by F. de St Urban, bust left, rev. tree with a vine that had been growing in it pulled away, 35mm (Brettauer 1021; Storer 3197; BDM V, 312). About extremely fine, but with minute piercing outside the beaded border (£60-80)

Provenance:
Bt Spink.

Giovanni Girolamo Sbaraglia (1641-1710), Bolognese anatomist, who published De recentiorum medicorum studio, dissertatio epistolaris ad amicum under a false name in 1689