Medal - Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvela

Features

Location	Spanish Netherlands
Type	Commemorative medals › Personality medals
Year	1555
Composition	Silver
Weight	47 g
Diameter	58 mm
Shape	Round
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 484000
References	Armand I# 36 Alfred Armand; 1883. Les médailleurs Italiens / Volume 1: des quinzième et seizième siècles = Italian Medalists (2^nd). Forgotten Books. , Vanhoudt# 1560.6 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 right.

Script: Latin

Lettering: ANTONII PERRENOT EPISC ATREBATEN

Engraver: Leone Leoni

Reverse

Triton (Greek sea god with human torso and fishy lower body) beats
with his oar the stormy sea. In the foreground, dog-like marine monsters are biting up a shipwrecked man.
In the background right a manned ship in front of rocks, in the sky two winds.

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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