Description: Medal - ITALY - VATICAN - Paul III Sovereign Pontiff (1534-1549) Year XVI (1550)Alessandro Farnese, for the attribution of the Duchy of Parma and Plaisance to Pierre-Louis FARNESE, this medal subsequently struck from an original work,Alessandro Cesati, known as "il Grechetto", Ganymede watering the Lilies.Obverse: Bust to the right, the cope decorated with a scene of the opening of the Holy Door.Reverse: ΦEPNH ZHNOΣ/ EYPAINEI, Ganymede standing left, holding an urn over his shoulder and watering a lily. On the right, an eagle. Module: 40mmMass / 29.10gIn 1545, Pope Paul III created the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza to give it to his son Pierre-Louis Farnèse.. For three centuries, the duchy was in the hands of the Farnese, eight generations succeeded each other before the extinction of the dynasty followed, from 1731, by the Bourbons.Medal - ITALY - VATICAN - Paul III Sovereign Pontiff (1534-1549) Year XVI (1550) Alessandro Farnese, for the attribution of the Duchy of Parma and Plaisance to Pierre-Louis FARNESE, this medal subsequently struck from an original work,Alessandro Cesati, known as "il Grechetto", Ganymede watering the Lilies. Obverse: Bust to the right, the cope decorated with a scene of the opening of the Holy Door. Reverse: ΦEPNH ZHNOΣ/ EYPAINEI, Ganymede standing left, holding an urn over his shoulder and watering a lily. On the right, an eagle. In 1545, Pope Paul III created the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza to give it to his son Pierre-Louis Farnèse.. For three centuries, the duchy was in the hands of the Farnese, eight generations succeeded each other before the extinction of the dynasty followed, from
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era: 16th century/Later medal
Engrave: Alessandro Cesati
Type: Foreign medals
Objet modified: Non
grade: HIGH
years for type: Year XVI
Edge: Smooth
genre: Religious Medals
Composition: Bronze
Theme: Commemoration
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