Medal - Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvela

Features

Location	Spanish Netherlands
Type	Commemorative medals › Personality medals
Year	1555
Composition	Bronze
Weight	54.15 g
Diameter	53 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Cast
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 484004
References	Hernan/Alo# 167 Pilar Peñalba Hernández, Camino Álvarez Alonso; 2002. Catálogo de Medallas Históricas del Museo Naval de Madrid = Catalogue of Historical Medals from the Naval Museum of Madrid. Museo Naval y Fundación Alvargonzález, Madrid, Spain. , Armand I# I p. 47, nº 4 Alfred Armand; 1883. Les médailleurs Italiens / Volume 1: des quinzième et seizième siècles = Italian Medalists (2^nd). Forgotten Books. , Vanhoudt# 1560.8 Gerard van Loon, John Saunders (ed.), Hugo Vanhoudt (ed.); 2021. Medallic History of the Low Countries Reprint. Saunders, Los Angeles, California, United States (4 volumes).

Obverse

Bearded bust facing left.

Script: Latin

Lettering: ANTONII PERRENOT EPI ATREBAT

Engraver: Leone Leoni

Reverse

The ship of Aeneas tries to escape Scylla (see monster with female upper body).
Neptune (Poseidon) threatens the monster with his trident to calm the storm.
In the foreground shipwrecked people and a Triton with a double trumpet.

Script: Latin

Lettering: DVRATE

Engraver: Leone Leoni

Comments

It is uncertain if the engraver is Leone Leoni or Jacques Jonghelinck.

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-86)

Bishop of Arras in 1538, most trusted advisor of Charles V in 1550,
archbishop of Mechelen in 1560-82, Cardinal in 1561
and archbishop of Besançon in 1584

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (1555)

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