Important Medal by Hamerani

397, Lot: 863. Estimate $500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Philip Thomas Howard, Cardinal of Norfolk. 1629-1694. Cast Æ Medal (69mm, 149.0 g, 12h). By G. Hamerani. Dated 1683. (PH) T HOWARD S R E CARD DE NORFOLKE TIT S M S M, bust left, wearing zucchetto and mantum / NE VICTA RESVRGANT, Hercules standing left, holding club and torch searing the severed head of the Hydra to lower left; tree in background to left; above, eagle flying right, head left, holding thunderbolt and wreath. MI 592/273; Eimer –. EF. Extremely rare. All examples of this medal are cast, per MI.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection, purchased from H. J. Cooper, November 1965.