325, Lot: 860. Estimate $300. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ITALY. Dido, Queen of Carthage. Cast Æ Medal (43mm, 57.60 g, 6h). By Alessandro Cesati, “il Grechetto,”
fl. 1538-1564. ΔΙΔΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑ, draped bust of Dido right / View of Carthage, seen from aerial perspective; three galleys at base of city’s marine wals. Kress 368. VF, dark brown and green patina. Later cast.
Ex Artemide E3 (4 July 2010), lot 4507; Apostolo Zeno Collection (not in the Dorotheum sale).
Cesati was papal mintmaster from 1540 to 1561.