Lot 208: [ ITALIAN MEDALS ]

GIANPAOLO POGGINI (1518-c. 1582) Philip II (1527-1598), King of Spain from 1556, bronze medal, c. 1560, bust of Philip left, similar to previous lot, rev., RELIQVVM DATVRA - INDIA, personification of the Indies proffering the globe to waiting Spanish ships; behind her are a group of figures from the New World and a llama laden with silver bars, 38.5mm (Attwood 1083; Armand I 239, 10; Toderi/Vannel 1341; Betts 5, 12), pierced, cleaned, a very fine early cast

Provenance: Purchased Baldwin's, 2 August 1969; John J. Ford Jnr. collection, part 13, Stack's, 16 January 2006, lot 668.