Auction Catalogue

10 May 2007

Starting at 1:30 PM

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Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 441

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10 May 2007

Hammer Price:
£450

Turkey, Victories over the Turks, 1687, a silver medal by G. Hautsch, busts of Francesco Morosini, Girolamo Corner and Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck in medallions supported by female cherubs, rev. panoramas of Athens, Lepanto Patras, Corinth, Castel Nova, Mistra Sparta and Castel Tornese around, edge lettered gesta dei virtvte, etc, 42mm (Julius 341; Serenissima II, 108; cf. Baldwin Auction 39, 1978; cf. Spink 6, 340). Extremely fine and attractively toned, rare (£600-800)