Lot 386: DOMENICO DI POLO DE' VETRI (after 1480-c. 1547)

DOMENICO DI POLO DE' VETRI (after 1480-c. 1547) Cosimo de' Medici (1519-1574), Duke of Florence (1537), bronze medal, armoured bust right, rev., the sign of Capricorn below eight stars, 35.0mm (Attwood 783; Armand I, 144, 2; Pollard 360 = Kress 315; Bargello 330; Toderi/Vannel 1393), a somewhat worn contemporary cast"

Ex Lepke auction, Berlin, 22 April 1913, lot 317 (""Sammlung eines Engländers""); H.G. Oldenburg, auction 30, Kiel, 10 September 1994, lot 773. Cosimo adopted the sign of the Capricorn as his impresa after Augustus and the reverse derives from a Roman coin of that emperor."