Item 1223 out of 1342
Lot # 1223 - Gold Medallion of Balzan of 1956.
Gold Medallion of Balzan of 1956.
Gold Medallion of Balzan of 1956. Gold Medallion of Balzan of 1956.
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MetalGoldYear (AH/VS/SE/AM)1956
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Balzan, Gold Medallion, 1956, Obv: portrait of Eugenio Balzan & Corriere della Sera, Founder of FoundationRev: Logo of foundation, 17.90gm, 30.16mm, about extremely fine, Rare.

 
 
Note:- The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organisations who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the brotherhood of man, The assets behind the foundation were established by the Italian Eugenio Balzan (1874-1953), a part-owner of Corriere della Sera who had invested his assets in Switzerland and in 1933 had left Italy in protest against fascism. He left a substantial inheritance to his daughter Angela Lina Balzan (1892-1956), who at the time was suffering an incurable disease. Before her death, she left instructions for the foundation and since then it has two headquarters, the Prize administered from Milan, the Fund from Zurich.

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