Netherlands, Philip II of Spain and the Duke of Alba as Governor-General of Belgium, large oval bronze restitution medal, bust of Philip II right wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece, rev., bust named to Ferdinand de Toledo, Duke of Alba left; dated 1567 below; both truncations with incised JC monogram, 98 x 86mm (Armand II, 304, C; BDM III, p. 65), cast in high relief, about extremely fine with brown patina Forrer in BDM states that the JC monogamist is French, a producer of cast medals of earlier celebrities. The portrait of the Duke of Alba on the present medal is in fact copied from a medal of a certain Plancheus, otherwise unknown.

Estimate: GBP 500 - 700