Italy – Livorno – Firenze – High Relief Copper Medal – 1496 /1896 – 43.7 Grams – 44.52 mm – Beautiful high relief medal, just one of many I recently purchased at a coin show in Verona, Italy. This medal was issued by the city of Firenze and the reverse reads “1496-1896 – A Livorno, fedele sorella nella difesa del libero comune e nella Italiana unita,” which translated means “To Livorno, faithful sister in the defense of a free community and a united Italy.” The medal was struck in copper, weighs 43.7 grams and has a 44.52 millimeter diameter. I grade the medal About Uncirculated.
By Jean Dassier, Swiss medalist and official engraver for Geneva from 1720-1763. AE 41mm. Composition: White Metal. Obv: Bust of Edward I, in armor, mantle and a crown, facing three-quarters left. Legend: EDOUARD . I . D . G. ANG . ET .HIB . REX. (Edward I, by the grace of God, King of England and Ireland). Rev: A circular temple with three niches containing statues of Minerva (for Edward’s wisdom and military genius), Prudence and Hercules (an allusion to the magnitude and variety of Edward’s enterprizes). At one side History is recording Edward’s deeds while two onlookers admire the monument on the other side. Exergue: NAT. 1230 . COR. 1272. MORT. 1307. (Born 1230, crowned 1272, died 1307).
The back of the medal gives basic information on the meteorite fall and is sequentially numbered. Total mintage worldwide was limited to 250 specimens. Comes as shown with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Total mintage worldwide was limited to 250 specimens. Comes as shown with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Total mintage worldwide was limited to 250 specimens. Comes as shown with a Certificate of Authenticity.
31 mm in diameter and weighing 15.5 grams of .925 silver for an actual silver weight of 0.46 ounce.
Italy – Torino – Poet Torquato Tasso – High Relief Bronze Medal – 1846 – 43.62mm – 45.6 grams – Torquato Tasso (11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered, 1580), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem. He suffered from mental illness and died a few days before he was due to be crowned as the king of poets by the Pope. Until the beginning of the 19th century, Tasso remained one of the most widely read poets in Europe. This is just one of several medals I acquired during a recent trip to the Verronafil Coin Show in Italy.
This unattributed medal was struck as a displayable compliment to a French Medal of Honor and is listed as being for the Officer Corps and appropriate for Commanders and other Dignitaries.
This medal weighs 21.6 grams and is 38.25 millimeters in diameter.
World Wildlife Fund – (6) WWF Wildlife Medals – Display Cards – 2009 – Brilliant Uncirculated -The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has long campaigned to improve the health of rivers, seas, rainforests and deserts as well as the wildlife that inhabit those regions of the planet. In 2009 the WWF authorized the issue of a series of 38.6 millimeter medals, each mounted in a beautiful colored display card, to help draw attention to these endangered species. This is a group of six celebratory medals featuring the porpoise, orangutan, giant panda, polar bear, rhino and tiger, each of which can be found individually on this website.
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