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Italy, Centenary of the Death of Alessandro Volta, 1927, a bronze medal by E. Boninsegna and R. Castelli for Lorioli and Castelli, Milan, bust left amid classical emblems, rev. winged angel amid classical figures, 60mm (cf. DNW 5, 132). About extremely fine (£30-40)

Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), physicist and pioneer of the study of electricity, who gave his name to the unit of electric measurement and who invented the first battery