Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVII - Session 4 . 989
The J. Eric Engstrom Collection: Italy
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ITALY, Ferrara (Duchy). Ercole I d'Este. 1471-1505. AR Quarto – Testone (29mm, 9.68 g, 10h). Final emission, struck after 1498(?). Bare head left / Classical horseman riding right, with flowing cloak and extended right hand. Belessia 19/G; MIR 254. Some light scratches under delicate toning. Good VF. From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 556 (July 1992), no. 182.This beautiful and rare type bears a delicate portrait of Ercole on the obverse and Christ rising triumphantly from the grave on the reverse. In 1925 Hans Nussbaum suggested that the reverse was derived from a 15th century fresco, attributed to the school of Pisanello, in the Oratory of the Annunciation in Ferrara.
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