Benedetto Pisstrucci's Medal for the Battle of Waterloo

Benedetto Pisstrucci's Medal for the Battle of Waterloo, 1815, a filled bronzed electrotype, 134 mm, conjoined busts of the rulers of the allied powers of 1815, surrounded by classical and allegorical warlike motifs (E 1067), some light discolouration, otherwise about as produced.

Intended to be struck for presentation to the principal rulers and commanders of the allied powers, the elaborate design made it so difficult to execute that the dies were not completed until the late 1840s, when the majority of the intended recipients had died. Medals were eventually produced - only in electrotype and in gutta percha - in the 1850s, for collectors.