Description
Italy, Renaissance, Hercules, Cast Oval Bronze Medal (38x33mm/48.3gm), undated, by Giovanni da Cavino. Powerful laureate head right, cast as if ‘set’ with the obverse of a coin of Bruttium (Kroton) with head of Hera Lakinia. The obverse a sharp casting. The reverse a most unusual flight of fantasy by the medalist. (cf. Attwood 298; Hill, Corpus, 411; Kress 411; Pollard (2007) 468). Choice Very Fine.
From the collection of medals formed by William Victor Royle Baldwin (known as Roy or Uncle Roy), one of A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd founder’s three sons, he was born in 1893.
Normally with the reverse showing a messenger bringing the hero the shirt of Nessus, and because of the initials on the reverse attributed to ‘The Monogrammist H B’.
