Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 2209. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

[Medals] ITALY. Lysander of Sparta, by Valerio Belli. 1468-1546 AD. Æ Medal (28mm, 12.82 gm, 12h). Struck circa 1530. Draped bust right of Lysander of Sparta / Victory holding wreath and palm on prow of galley being drawn by two hippocamps. Attwood 357c. VF, brown patina. Contemporary cast copy, holed. ($200)

Part of a series of some fifty medals prepared by Belli, portraying famous personalities of antiquity.