Sale 6179
London
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8 July 1999
Price realised
GBP 391
Estimate
Austria, Ferdinand I, Maximilian II and his wife Maria, silver portrait medal, 1563, unsigned, FER DG EL RO IM S AV GE HV BO R 1563, armoured bust to right, wearing badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, rev. MAXIMILIAN DG RO HVN BO REX 1563, conjoined busts to left, Maximilian crowned and wearing badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 38mm. (Herrgott tf.IX,32), traces of mount at 12 o'clock, faint traces of gilding, very fine, rare
Provenance
Rothschild inv. no. LR29.
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