Object Description
322 CHARLES V (1500-58), Holy Roman Emperor, 1519
Obv. Bust to right, laureate. Around, . IMP . CAES . CAROLVS . V . AVG .
Rev. The Infante Philip in armor, on horseback, to right. Around, . PHILIPVS . AVSTR . CAROLI . V . CAES
Lead, 100 mm.
A coarse variant of Leone Leoni's medal of the emperor. The medal is recorded by Bernhart and by Hill from an electrotype in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Bibl.: Arm. 2, p. 182,13 (as Italian) ; Van Mieris 2, pp. 442-43 (without inscriptions); M. Bernhart, Die Bildnismedaillen Karls des Fuenften, Munich 1919, no. 178 (as anonymous Italian); G. F. Hill in Numismatic Chronicle (1921), p. 159; Catalogo de la Coleccion de Monedas y Medallas de Manuel Vidal Quadras y Ramon de Barcelona, 4 vols., Barcelona 1892, 4, nos. 13529,13530. Auction catalog: Mezbacher, 1-2 May 1900, pl. 2, 508.
