WHM 15

  • WHM 15
  • Renaissance
  • Medal
  • Dido /Elissa (queen of Carthage )
  • C.1550 AD
  • Copper alloy
  • Cast
  • Circular
  • 53 mm
  • 74.12 g
  • 2 h
  • Kress 368; Attwood 942; Metropolitan Museum of Art 1975.1.1268 (Robert Lehman Collection).
  • Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut). CNG, 267, 578
  • 2011-11-02
  • Medal casted from a Medal designed by Alessandro Cesati (1538-1564 AD). Traces of overstriking on the original are visible on the obverse.

ΔΙΔΩ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑ,

laureate and draped bust of Dido right, border of dots

ΚΑΡΧΗΔΩΝ,

fantastical view of Carthage, three galleys before.


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