Medal: Bartolomeo Colleoni, model 1455 or later (possibly cast 19th century), Bronze, Diam. 8 cm, wt. 138.62 g., Medals, Marco Guidizani (Italian, active 1454–62), A portrait of Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400 – 1476), a celebrated Venetian condottiere is on the obverse, and a nude man sitting on a cuirass and holding a plumb line is on the reverse. A terminus post quem for this medal is given by Colleoni’s appointment as commander of the Venetian forces in 1455; this specimen is a late aftercast, possibly from the nineteenth century
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Medal, Bartolomeo Colleoni, model 1455, later, cast 19th century, Bronze, Diam, 8 cm, wt, 138.62 g, Medals, Marco Guidizani, Italian, active, 1454–62, portrait, 1400, 1476, celebrated Venetian, condottiere, obverse, nude man, sitting, cuirass, holding, plumb line, reverse, terminus post, quem, medal, given, Colleoni, appointment, commander, Venetian forces, 1455, specimen, late aftercast, nineteenth
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