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The medal on offer is a subsequent version with various variations, including: date of in exergue with the initials dbronze medal issued in honour of cardinal mazarin () to commemorate the siege of casale inour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeit is generally known that most medals made in france are reproduced using the original die, but for some of these it was not possible if the die got broken or deteriorated, which is probably the case with varin's diereferences and biographical notes: - la medaille au temps de louis xiv () - catalogue général illustré des éditions de la monnaie de paris", first volume () - historie metallique de louis xiv - medailles sur les principaux evénèments du regne de louis le grand () read moredifferent inscription and some details of the scene corrected on the reverse sideplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website63 g edge without hallmarksartist: jean baptiste dufour ( - ?) according to 'la medaille au temps de louis xiv' it appears that all the dies marked dnote: the first version of this medal was by jean varin () and it was certainly struck after (mazarin became cardinal on 16 december )obverse: iulius cardinalis mazarinus bust of cardinal facing right reverse: in festas acies nutu dirimit exergue: casali and initials d f scene with the opposing armies (french and spanish), deployed on the field, at the centre mazarin (soon to be cardinal) riding towards the spanish army holding his hat in hand (he managed to negotiate an agreement)rarity: rr tracked shipping via dhl, carefully packagedare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablewere made by him between andthe medal was therefore minted during this periodcondition: almost unc fine patina53 mm weight: approxdiameter: approx
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