Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2708. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PADUAN MEDALS, Commodus. After Giovanni Bernardi. 1494-1553. Æ Medallion (41mm, 75.40 g, 12h). Struck circa 1520. AVG IMP M KOMMOD ANT, bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind, within rose-and-laurel wreath / FOELIKIT AUG, lion bringing down stag left; behind, figure peering through columned archway. P. Attwood, “Giovanni Bernardi and the question of medal attribution in 16th century Italy'', in Perspectives on the Renaissance Medal (New York 2000), fig. 11. VF. Late aftercast. Very rare.