Lot 312: [ MEDALS ]

JACQUES JONGHELINCK (1530-1606) Lucas Munich (c. 1490-1563), Abbot of St. Bavo in Ghent, bronze medal, dated 1559, bust right, aged 66, wearing cope; date in relief on truncation, rev., shield over cross formed by linked L-M and bishop's crook, 66.3 mm (Smolderen 21; Armand III, 89, H; van Loon I, 52, 1), a very fine old cast without chasing

Provenance: Numismatica Genevensis 4, 11-12 December 2006, lot 422.On the medals described by Smolderen, including a uniface silver piece sold at Sotheby's, 5 July 1994, lot 152, the date is found incised on the truncation while the present medal shows the date in relief.