439, Lot: 674. Estimate $300. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Padova. Domenico Lazzarini. Professor of Greejk and Latin Literature at University of Paduaa, 1668-1734. Cast Æ Medal (90mm, 189.30 g, 12h). Unsigned. DOMINICVS LAZZARINVS DE MVRRO PATRICIVS MACERATENSIS, bareheaded and draped bust right / VRIT EN FVLG SVO QVI PRAEGRAVAT ART INFER SE POSIT, Prudenentia, holding mirror and leaning on herm, foot on books, standing slightly left, head right, crowning temple inscribed HONOS with wreath; at feet, serpent slithering among books. Vannel-Toderi 121; Cesare Johnson Collection 678 (this medal). EF, brown surfaces, minor chasing in fields, patina scratched off around HONOS on reverse. Rare.

From the Virtus Collection. Ex Morton & Eden 80 (13 June 2016), lot 78; Sir Timothy Clifford Collection (Spink/Christie, 21 May 1996), lot 447; Cesare Johnson Collection, 678.