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Leonello d'Este

(Italian, about 1395–1455)
about 1440–50
Object PlaceItaly
Medium/TechniqueMetal; cast bronze (90% copper, 5% zinc, 4% tin)
DimensionsDiameter and weight: 70 mm (2 3/4 in.)
Credit LineTheodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession number57.174
On View
On view
ClassificationsNumismatics
Collections
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "MARCHIO ESTENSIS LEONELLVS" [words separated by olive branches between]. Reverse: Inscribed at edge "OPVS·PISANI·PICTORIS".
Provenance1957, sold by Mark M. Salton-Schlessinger (b. 1914 - d. 2005), New York, to the MFA for $1,800. (Accession date: March 14, 1957)