Lot 58: [ ITALIAN MEDALS ]

ADRIANO FIORENTINO (c. 1450/1460-1499) Ferdinand II of Aragon (1467-96), as Duke of Calabria from 1494 and King of Naples from 1495, bronze medal, FERDINANDVS ALFONSI II REGIS F DIVI FERD N DIVI ALFON PRON ARAGONEVS, bust to right looking upwards, wearing cap; flanked by DVX - CALABR, rev., FELICITAS SPES RVBLICAE, Felicitas seated left holding cornucopia over her head and wheat ears before her; in field to left, eaglet and the letter W, 75.3mm (Hill 336; Bargello 86; for the earlier version of this medal with Ferdinand as Prince of Capua see Pollard 146), twice pierced, a very fine contemporary cast with brown patina

Provenance: Sotheby's Zurich, 26-27 November 1975, lot 710; Morton & Eden, 11-12 June 2008, lot 406.