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Inscription

around circumference: MARS FERVS ET SVMHVM TANGENS CYTHEREA TONANTEM DANT TIBI REGNA PARES ET TVA FATA MOVENT; across center in field: INVICTVS FEDERICVS C[omes] V[r]BINI / ANNO D[omini] MCCCCLXVIII; oB //: OPVS CLEMENTIS V[r]BINATIS

Provenance

Sir John Charles Robinson [1824-1913], London; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19-21 May 1884, no. 29); Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his heirs; purchased with the entire Dreyfus collection 9 July 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 31 January 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1957 to NGA.

Bibliography

1994
Pernis, Maria Grazia. "Fifteenth-Century Patrons and the Scipio-Caesar Controversy." Text 6 (1994): 186-188, fig. 2.
2007
Pollard, John Graham. Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. 2 vols. Washington, 2007: 1:no. 143, repro.

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