Jaques Jonghelinck (1530-1606), gold medal of Jacob Hannibal Graf von Hohenems, 1575, JACOBVS HANIBAL COMES IN ALTAEMPS, bust right, in draped armour and ruff, 1575 on truncation, rev. SALVA DOMINE VIGILANTES, a three-masted ship sailing to right in a rough sea, a giant at the helm, 40mm., 46.23g. (Arm.III,280,I; Simonis pl.14,2; Smoldern 86), very fine, extremely rare

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Jaques Jonghelinck (1530-1606), gold medal of Jacob Hannibal Graf von Hohenems, 1575, JACOBVS HANIBAL COMES IN ALTAEMPS, bust right, in draped armour and ruff, 1575 on truncation, rev. SALVA DOMINE VIGILANTES, a three-masted ship sailing to right in a rough sea, a giant at the helm, 40mm., 46.23g. (Arm.III,280,I; Simonis pl.14,2; Smoldern 86), very fine, extremely rare

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Jonghelinck worked at Antwerp as a medallist, seal engraver, sculptor and caster of bronze statues for the Spanish government of Philip II. A document of 1598 records a payment of 148 Livres 15 Sous and 9 Deniers made to the artist on account of four medals in gold which he was ordered to execute for the Archduke Albert (see Forrer III, p,85).
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