British and World Commemorative Medals - Baldwin's

274 Switzerland/Rome, Dassier, Silver Medalets (3),
from his series of Roman History, Majesty of
the Senate / Glory of Rome, Battle of Pharsala /
Humaity of Caesar, Laws of the 12 Tables / Virginia,
31mm. All toned and extremely fine. (3) £150-250
275 Ships of the Modern Navy, a series of Silver and
Silvered-bronze Medals (30), some with enameled
decoration, including the RN Garibaldi, 1900, 23mm;
the Orsa class, 40mm; Submarine Leonardo da Vinci,
many with ship portraits, all but first around World
War II period or later, most 25mm. Very fine and
better and an interesting group. (30) £200-250
RN Garibaldi (built Genoa), sunk the Turkish Avnilla and several
gunboats at Beirut during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-1912.
The Orsa class were a group of large torpedo boats or destroyer
escorts built in the late 1930s. The Submarine Leonardo da Vinci,
sunk May 1943, had been the top scoring non-German submarine
of the all war.
Papal Medals
276 Pius II, Piccolomini (1458-1464), Bronze Medal, bust
left, rev VELOCITER SCRIBENTIS SOBOLES, a table
covered with books, 44mm (Linc 351). Extremely
fine, all examples were posthumously struck, this medal
shows the faint dies cracks. £40-60
277 Hadrian VI (1522-1523), Coronation, restrike Bronze
Medal from original 16 th century dies, bust left, rev
scene of the coronation (Linc 453). About extremely
fine, almost certainly early 18 th century. £50-70
278 Julius III (1550-1555), Restoration of Catholicism in
England 1555, Bronze Medal, by Cavino, bust right,
rev ANGLIA RESVRGES, the Pope raising England,
with him Queen Mary, Cardinal Pole, Emperor
Charles V and Philip II of Spain, Mary’s husband,
49mm (Linc 553-5; MI i 70/15). A later strike, good
extremely fine. £150-200
279 Pius V, Ghislieri (1566-1572), the Battle of Lepanto
1571, Bronze Medal, by Giovanni Antonio de Rossi,
half figure bust right, rev A DOMINO FACTVM EST
ISTVD 1571, view of the naval battle, 42mm (Modesti
620). A crisp strike, small die crack suggesting it is
slightly later, extremely fine and rare. £100-150
On 7 October 1571 an alliance of Catholic navies led by John of
Austria defeated the Ottoman fleet off Lepanto, in the Gulf of
Patras. The victory halted the Ottoman Empire’s efforts to secure
free access to the Mediterranean and was decisive in protecting
Italy and Western Europe from total Ottoman invasion.