World Historical Medals

Lot 4056    SESSION 12 (11.30am Thursday)    World Historical Medals

Estimate $100
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SOLD $190

ITALY, 1924, Voyage of Italians to Latin America (30mm) silver, obverse, man with sledge hammer and woman with harp seated at ocean, winged figure above, reverse, star with four rays emanating, legend around, 2-line inscription; 1927, 4th International Congress of Area Navigation, Rome, committee medal (35mm) silver, obverse, workman seated repairing wing held by angel, legend around, reverse, engraved naming (translation) 'To Lieutenant Mariano De Angelis, Secretary', loop suspension; 1916, Memorial Medal to Cesare Battiste, martyr for Italian Irredente Movement captured by Austrians in WWI and executed as a spy (33mm) bronze, obverse, cross, inscription thereon, within laurel sprays, reverse, star, rays emanating, over sea, 6-line inscription, wreath around, loop suspension; Argentina, 1934, Remembrance of 32nd International Eucharistic Congress, Buenos Aires (34mm x 22mm) silver, obverse, Holy Family, rev. 7-line inscription, loop suspension; Netherlands, 1928, 9th Olympics, Amsterdam (55mm) bronze, obverse, naked male and female competitors holding flaming torch, scales below, reverse, Olympic stadium, angel above. Very fine - extremely fine. (5)