World Coins, Medals & Banknotes

621 World War I, Bronze Medals (4), by Mario Nelli,
marching troops / machine gunners; heavy
artillery / gun detail; helmeted head / ancient
troops head to battle; naked warrior / ruined
church, each 60mm. Good very fine. (4) £80-120
622 Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Bronze Medal
(1930), on Italian Unity and Dignity, by Mario
Nelli, head left, rev legend, 41mm; World War II,
green patinated Bronze Medal for the travelling
exhibition of Italian war art, 1942-1943, by F
Gianone, hemeted head three-quarters right, rev
helmet, sword and legend, 60mm; others (2), one
Mussolini, one German; Antonio Cippico [Ćipiko]
(1877-1935), politician, Senator, Professor of Italian
Literature at the University of London, Bronze
Portrait Medal, in the Renaissance style, named on
edge (Janet M Jarmain, 1931-32), 49mm. All extremely
fine, first and third with strong images. (5) £80-100
NETHERLANDS
625 William V (1748-1751-1806), small cast Silver
openwork Badge, silhouetted bust left, pointed
border around, 39mm x 28mm, integral suspension
loop (vL suppl IX, XXI, 731, this with wreath
border). Very fine. £120-150
626 The Hague, Silver Medal, undated (1786-1791), by
Meyer, city’s arms and supporters, rev city figure
with Justice, CONCORDIA, 37mm; Haarlem, Silver
“City” Medal, c.1750, seated female of Harlem
takes money from bowl on her lap, COMES
CONSILIORUM, rev Minerva seated with ship
model and manufacturing press, ARTE ET MARTE,
33mm (vL 149). First extremely fine, second very fine,
both toned. (2) £100-150
623 The Assassination of the Brothers Johann and
Cornelius de Witt, Silver Medal, 1672, by Pieter Avry
or Aury, conjoined busts right, rev legend in eight
lines, “Twee Witten, eensgezint, …”, floral and vine
sprays above and below, lettered edge with date,
VIOENTA MORTE DELETI HAGÆ COMITIS 20 AVG:
A’O 1672, 48.5mm (vL III, 87, 3; Molinari 323; cf BDM
VII, 34). Extremely fine with light tone. £250-350
Johann de Witt (1625-1672); Cornelius de Witt (1623-1672).
Forrer [BDM] writing of the larger signed medal for the same event,
suggests that the medallist may be the sculptor Pieter Xavery (born
c.1647, active 1667-1674), “who did not wish to disclose his name
in connection with the execution of this medal”. Scher, The Proud
Republic, simply states it may be a pseudonym.
627 William I (1772-1843, King 1815-1840), Union of
the Southern and Northern States, large Copper
Medal, 1815, by A F Michaut, bust left, rev figures
of the North and South, crowned shields between
them, PARIBUS SE LEGIBUS AMBAE INVICTAE
GENTES AETERNA IN FOEDERA MITTUNT, 72mm
(Dirks 38). Nearly extremely fine. £60-80
628 William I (1772-1843, King 1815-1840), Marriage of
Prince William to Princess Sophie of Württemberg,
in Stuttgart, Copper Medal, 1839, by van der
Kellen, cherub unites shields, rev legend, 41.5mm;
Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1858-1934, second
wife of William III and Queen 1879-1890), Death,
Bronze Medal, bust right, 1934, 50mm; Peter
Augustus Genestet (1829-1861), Copper Prize
Medal, unsigned and undated, bust left, 42mm;
Small Portrait Plaquette of M G A de Man, by
Begeer, her bust left, 40.5mm x 30.5mm. Generally
extremely fine or nearly so. (4) £70-90
624 Suppression of the Amsterdam Riots, Amsterdam,
Silver Medal, 1696, by J van Dishoecke, Neptune
standing in his sea-chariot calming the storm, two
birds in a nest amidst the waves, MOTOS PRAESTAT
COMPONERE FLVCTCS, rev the two birds on their
nest now floating in a tranquil sea, legend above
on scroll, HALCYONIBUS REDVCTIS …, date and
signature below, 38.5mm, in a circular fruitwood
box (vL IV,161). Very fine. £80-120
629 University of Utrecht, Copper Prize Medal, 1836,
by van der Kellen, Minerva, rev arms in wreath,
43.5mm; 250 th Anniversary, Copper Medal,
1886, by W Schammer, 57mm; Jan van Nassau,
250 th Anniversary of the University, Copper
Medal, 1886, by G J Begeer, lion in enclosure,
rev legend in eight lines, 43mm; Aardenburg,
Agricultural Society, 200 th Anniversary, Copper
Medal, 1872, 47.5mm; Royal Zoological and
Botanical Society, The Hague, Copper Prize
Medal, awarded 1895, 42mm. Very fine and
extremely fine. (5) £100-150