CNG 100, Lot: 1187. Estimate $750. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Games of the XVII Olympiad, Rome. 1960. Proof AV Medal (30mm, 17.40 g, 12h). Official Organizing Committee Commemorative issue. Design by R. Signorini. Male figure, holding torch aloft, standing facing between Arch of Constantine and reconstructed Temple of Zeus Olympios; ROMA in exergue; Z. 900 and artist’s signature on either side / GIOGCHI DELLA XVII OLIMPIADE, Capitoline wolf and twins standing left on tabula ansata inscribe MCMLX; below, Olympic rings and S. P. Q. R.. Cf. Spink 194, lot 310 (for another example, but with original issue box). Proof.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A Adams, purchased from Ingrid O’Neil, May 2009.