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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cucumbor, post: 3194668, member: 4298&quot;]That&#039;s a most beautiful teston [USER=91771]@ycon[/USER], congrats on a great acquisition and great writeup.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few years before this first teston has been produced by Galeazzo Maria Sforza, his father Francesco Sforza had a gold ducat issued in 1462, which was the very first attempt in western Europe to mint coins featuring realistic portraits, inspired by the antique ones</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HKG3SbYuU2M/TDY9uVJtBcI/AAAAAAAAARY/slNXobe52v0/s1600/Photo1-Ducat+de+Francois+Sforza.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Ducat de Francesco Sforza (courtesy vente Varesi # 54/149 du 18/11/2009)</p><p><br /></p><p>And it&#039;s after that very ducat that was initiated a similar production in France, the first one being the cavalier d&#039;or for Jean II de Bourbon in Dombes</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HKG3SbYuU2M/TNbjLxgCpUI/AAAAAAAAAUw/6DwmYiXaz5A/s1600/D-011-001aa.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Cavalier d’or de Jean II de Bourbon (après 1469)</p><p>(collection privée)</p><p><br /></p><p>Q[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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