FED Anor IMP Helmeted Crusader Medal - Need ID

[Pocket Change]

Reverse is marked: ECCO.LA.FIGO. Medal looks like its pot metal, 49mm. ID Please.

 

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[mikusek]

I enlarged it, it looks like it says "ECCO.LA.PICO" A search brings up the phrase, but can't translate the pages. Appears to be Italian.

If it is ECCO.LA.FICO, here is a page that explains it somewhat: http://books.google.com/books?id=rD...=0CF8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=ECCO.LA.FICO&f=false

It also looks like someone is kissing the donkeys ass, and maybe the rider is the donkey's tail up out of the way to make it easier.

 

[Montauk]

Pastorino di Giovan Michele de'Pastorini, 1508-1592. Italian Renaissance Medallist.

(Portrait of Frederick Barbarossa?? Satirical Medal?) Bronze. Mid 16th Century.

(This looks right. It does not look like pot metal.)

(born, Castelnuovo della Berardenga, c. 1508; died, Florence, 6 Dec 1592). Italian medallist, glass painter and die engraver. He was one of the most prolific and able medallists of the Italian Renaissance, producing around 200 medals. He held various official positions including several in the mints of Emilian courts: in Ferrara (1554-9), in Bologna (1572), in Novellara (1574) and in Florence (1576). In Florence he was 'maestro di stucchi' under Grand Duke Francesco de' Medici (1541; 1574; 1587). He was also renowned as a portraitist in coloured wax for which he apparently developed new materials and techniques to represent hair and skin.

Your Medal.
http://www.ma-shops.com/muenzzentrum2/item.php5?id=6311&lang=en

http://www.answers.com/topic/pastorino-di-giovan-michele-de-pastorini#ixzz1olP9KGH7

Further examples from Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections?ft=+de'Pastorini

Medal of Brunelleschi's Dome in Florence Italy in collection of Lourve, Paris, Fr.
http://www.lessing-photo.com/dispimg.asp?i=30010348+&cr=13&cl=1

Obscure reference to your medal from Italian Coin website.
http://www.lamoneta.it/topic/75626-medaglione-di-federico-i-detto-barbarossa/

 

[chrisplay2004]

Good job on the ID montauk, however, I think the original post is a modern replica.