Live auction - fwo_407695 - ITALY - DUCHY OF MILAN - GALEAZZO MARIA SFORZA Teston n.d. Milan

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XF/AU

Estimate :	650 €
Price :	no bid
Maximum bid :	no bid
End of the sale :	13 December 2016 18:20:49

Type : Teston

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Milan

Metal : silver

Diameter : 28,65 mm

Orientation dies : 5 h.

Weight : 9,52 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce teston est frappé sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier. Reliefs plus nets au revers qu’au droit. Le droit a été nettoyé. Petite tache verte sur la tempe. Rayure derrière le buste. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise

Catalogue references :

CNI/V.72-73 - Neg./Var.190

Obverse

Obverse legend : (TÊTE DE SAINT AMBROISE) GALEAZ' M' SF' VICECOS' DVX' MLI. QIT.

Obverse description : Buste cuirassé de Galéas Marie à droite, une rose à 5 pétales sur la base de la cuirasse ; un annelet pointé derrière la tête.

Obverse translation : (Galéas Marie Sforza, vicomte et duc de Milan).

Reverse

Reverse legend : PP' ANGLE' - Q3 - .CO' AC' IANVE' D'.

Reverse description : Heaume sur un écu de Milan, couronné et sommé d'une guivre ailée tenant un homme dans sa gueule ; de part et d'autre du heaume G3 - M et deux branches auxquelles sont accrochés deux seaux.

Historical background

ITALY - DUCHY OF MILAN - GALEAZZO MARIA SFORZA

(1466-1476)

Galéas Marie Sforza, born in 1444 from the marriage of François Sforza and Blanche Marie Visconti, succeeded his father, who died in 1466 while he was in France in the service of Louis XI. He first married Dorothée de Gonzague, daughter of Louis, Marquis of Mantua then in second marriage, in 1468, Bonne de Savoie, daughter of Louis de Savoie. He exiled his mother to Cremona and ruled the Duchy of Milan as a tyrant. He reigned only ten years before being assassinated in 1476 while entering a church. His son, Jean-Galéas Sforza, succeeded him when he was only nine years old..