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<p>[QUOTE="ycon, post: 3106674, member: 91771"]This morning I won my dream coin from Dix Noonan Webb:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]787254[/ATTACH] </p><p>Tuscany, Alessandro de Medici (1510-37), Testone, ALEX ANDER M – R P FLOREEN DVX, bust of Alessandro l., Rv. S COSMVS – S DAMIANVS. Cosimo and Damiano standing facing. , 9.95g/12h (MIR 103). Plugged, otherwise very fine, rare. <b>Dies by Benvenuto Cellini. </b></p><p><br /></p><p>Cellini describes the coin in his autobiography (LXXX): </p><p><br /></p><blockquote><blockquote><p>"No sooner had I dismounted that I went to visit Duke Alessandro, and thanked him greatly for his present of the fifty crowns, telling his Excellency that I was always ready to serve him according to my abilities. He gave me orders at once to strike dies for his coinage; and the first I made was a piece of forty soldi, with the Dukes head on one side and San Cosimo and San Damiano on the other. <b>This was in silver, and it gave so much satisfaction that the Duke did not hesitate to say they were the best pieces of money in Christendom. The same said all Florence and every one who saw them. </b>Consequently I asked his Excellency to make me appointments, and to grant me the lodgings of the Mint. He bade me remain in his service, and promised he would give me more than I demanded. Meanwhile he said he had commissioned the Master of the Mint, a certain Carlo Acciaiuoli, and that I might go to him for all the money that I wanted. This I found to be true; but I drew my monies so discreetly, that I had always something to my credit, according to my account."</p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>He also describes it in his treatise on goldsmithing: </p><p><br /></p><blockquote><blockquote><p>"In Florence likewise did I make all the moneys for Duke Alexander the </p><p>first of that name; they were 40 soldi pieces. And because the Duke was </p><p>curly headed, the people called these coins the Duke’s curls. On one </p><p>side was his head, and on the other St. Cosmo and St. Damian."</p></blockquote></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ycon, post: 3106674, member: 91771"]This morning I won my dream coin from Dix Noonan Webb: [ATTACH=full]787254[/ATTACH] Tuscany, Alessandro de Medici (1510-37), Testone, ALEX ANDER M – R P FLOREEN DVX, bust of Alessandro l., Rv. S COSMVS – S DAMIANVS. Cosimo and Damiano standing facing. , 9.95g/12h (MIR 103). Plugged, otherwise very fine, rare. [B]Dies by Benvenuto Cellini. [/B] Cellini describes the coin in his autobiography (LXXX): [INDENT][INDENT]"No sooner had I dismounted that I went to visit Duke Alessandro, and thanked him greatly for his present of the fifty crowns, telling his Excellency that I was always ready to serve him according to my abilities. He gave me orders at once to strike dies for his coinage; and the first I made was a piece of forty soldi, with the Dukes head on one side and San Cosimo and San Damiano on the other. [B]This was in silver, and it gave so much satisfaction that the Duke did not hesitate to say they were the best pieces of money in Christendom. The same said all Florence and every one who saw them. [/B]Consequently I asked his Excellency to make me appointments, and to grant me the lodgings of the Mint. He bade me remain in his service, and promised he would give me more than I demanded. Meanwhile he said he had commissioned the Master of the Mint, a certain Carlo Acciaiuoli, and that I might go to him for all the money that I wanted. This I found to be true; but I drew my monies so discreetly, that I had always something to my credit, according to my account."[/INDENT][/INDENT] He also describes it in his treatise on goldsmithing: [INDENT][INDENT]"In Florence likewise did I make all the moneys for Duke Alexander the first of that name; they were 40 soldi pieces. And because the Duke was curly headed, the people called these coins the Duke’s curls. On one side was his head, and on the other St. Cosmo and St. Damian."[/INDENT][/INDENT][/QUOTE]
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