1520-1570 AD., Italian fantasy medal based on ancient prototypes, engraver: Giovanni da Cavino, modern cast ca. 1850-1915 AD.

Italian fantasy medal based on ancient prototypes, engraver: Giovanni da Cavino (1500-1570) (but often attributed to a Paduan medalist, HB - “Monogrammista H.B.“), original issue ca. 1520-1570 AD., modern cast ca. 1850-1915 AD.,
Medal (ø 32,5 mm / 13,32 g), bronze, axes medal alignment ↑↑ (ca. 0°), smoothed edge,
Obv.: KOPAΣ , helmeted head of Kore wearing necklace, named Kore (Maiden) in the inscription before.
Rev.: AΛEΞANΔPOΣ , eagle standing r., thunderbolt above, lituus to left, club and apples of the Hesperides before.
Same reverse as on http://www.hmb.ch/sammlung/object/silberguss-phantasie-nachahmung-des-monogrammisten-hboder-des-valerio-belli-zu-aegypten-ptolemaios-i-als-satrap323-305-vchr-tetradrachme-im-namen-von-alexander-iii.html .

Die Zuweisung an den Monogrammisten HB erfolgt aufgrund von klar signierten Vergleichsstücken. Allerdings ist bis heute nicht bekannt, welcher Medailleur sich hinter diesem Mongramm verbirgt, man ordnet ihn jedenfalls dem häufig antikisierenden paduanischen Umkreis zu.

There has been a great deal of controversy over the authorship of medals with HB -monogram. Several have attributed it to Cavino’s partner Ercole Bassiano because of the HB, but those letters probably stand for Hercules Buphiloponus, a title suggested by Marco Benavides, a patron of Cavino’s.