Medal: Bartolomeo Colleoni, Marco Guidizani, model 1455 or later (possibly cast 19th century

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Medal: Bartolomeo Colleoni, model 1455 or later (possibly cast 19th century), Bronze, Diam. 8 cm, wt. g., Medals, Marco Guidizani (Italian, active 1454–62), A portrait of Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400 – 1476), a celebrated Venetian condottiere is on the obverse, and a nude man sitting on a cuirass and holding a plumb line is on the reverse. A terminus post quem for this medal is given by Colleoni’s appointment as commander of the Venetian forces in 1455; this specimen is a late aftercast, possibly from the nineteenth century

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