ITALY Medal 1686 Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga. VF+

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1686, Mantua (Duchy), Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga. Cast Bronze Medal.

Mint Year: ca. 1686
Reference: Magnaguti 98, Johnson 154.
Medallist: Giovanni Battista Guglielmada (G.F.)
Denomination: Cast Medal - Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga (Duke of Mantua)
Condition: Corrosion scars, minor deposits, otherwise a nice old VF+ cast with attractive patina!
Material: Bronze
Weight: 67.37gm
Diameter: 56mm


Obverse: Armored bust left wearing oval medallion below elaborate cravat. Sun on shoulder drapery, medallist´s signature (G.F.) inside arm truncation.
Legend: FERD . CAR . D . G . DVX . MANT . MO - NTISF . CAROLIVI . GVAST . ETC .

Reverse: Zodiac signs Leo, Vergo and Libra above sun in majesty.
Legend: CERTISSIMAS SIGMA SEQVENTVR
Translated: "The most certain signs are followed."

Mantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name. Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes, created during the 12th century, as the city's defence system. These lakes receive water from the Mincio River, a tributary of the Po River which descends from Lake Garda. The three lakes are called Lago Superiore, Lago di Mezzo, and Lago Inferiore ("Upper", "Middle", and "Lower" Lakes, respectively). A fourth lake, Lake Pajolo, which once served as a defensive water ring around the city, dried up at the end of the 18th century. The area and its environs are important not only in naturalistic terms, but also anthropologically and historically; research has highlighted a number of human settlements scattered between Barche di Solferinoand Bande di Cavriana, Castellaro and Isolone del Mincio. These dated, without interruption, from Neolithic times (5th–4th millennium BC) to the Bronze Age (2nd–1st millennium BC) and the Gallic phases (2nd–1st centuries BC), and ended with Roman residential settlements, which could be traced to the 3rd century AD. In 2017, Legambiente ranked Mantua as the best Italian city for the quality of the life and environment.


Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga (31 August 1652 – 5 July 1708) was the only child of Duke Charles II of Mantua and Montferrat, and the last ruler of the Duchy of Mantua of the House of Gonzaga.

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