Definition

• An Italian word meaning curly. It was applied to the silver Testone of forty Soldi made by Benvenuto Cellini for Alessandro de Medici, of Florence (1533- 1536), on account of the curly head on the obverse. See Symonds, Life of Cellini (i. lxxx.).

Quelle

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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