Medal: Bust of Carlo Borromeo, ca. 1600 (possibly cast in the 19th century), Italian, Milan (?), Bronze (copper alloy with dull yellowish, Diam. 4.9 cm, wt. 46.2 g, Medals, On the obverse is a portrait of Carlo Borromeo (1538 – 1584), cardinal and archbishop of Milan (1560 – 1584), and on the reverse is his impresa, a lamb on an altar. This is possibly a nineteenth-century aftercast taken from an old, worn medal
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Medal, Bust, Carlo Borromeo, ca, 1600, cast, 19th century, Italian, Milan, Bronze, copper alloy, dull yellowish, Diam, 4.9 cm, wt, 46.2 g, Medals, obverse, portrait, 1538 – 1584, cardinal, archbishop, 1560, 1584, reverse, impresa, lamb, altar, nineteenth-century aftercast, old, worn medal
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