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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ycon, post: 4651066, member: 91771&quot;]To be completely honest, I&#039;ve always been a little skeptical of this attribution. Berman mentions it and I&#039;ve seen it in occasional auction listings, but I&#039;m a bit at a loss as to where it comes from. Old scholars interpreted the bear claw mint mark as belonging to Cellini--and so any coin bearing it was attributed to Cellini--but it has since been shown that this was actually the die mark of the head of the mint Giacomo Balducci. Given that Cellini doesn&#039;t mention working on it in his autobiography, and that there isn&#039;t anything stylistically particular about it to point to his hand, the attribution does not hold much weight (IMO).</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said it&#039;s a perfectly lovely coin and a nice example of the type. I&#039;ve always likes the quadrapart ROMA, and I think any coin connected to Clement VII is interesting given the tumult of his reign.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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