377, Lot: 700. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SWITZERLAND. The Horatii and the Curiatii / The Fall of Alba. Æ Medal (32mm, 12.85 g, 12h). By Jean Dassier & sons, 1740-1750. The Horatii and the Curiatii: between two rows of soldiers and behind two fallen warriors, a Horatius slays the last surviving Curiatius, signaling the fall of Alba; dated year 85 (669 BC) in exergue / Allegory of the Fall of Alba: mourning personification of Alba seated before figure of Roma; dated year 85 (669 BC) in exergue. Eisler 4b; Catenacci pp. 10-11. EF, obverse die crack.

From the RBW Collection, purchased from Numismatica Ars Classica, 11 December 1992.