The first catalog, which will go to auction in the first four rounds on Wednesday, November 8, and Thursday, November 9, includes among the many lots a particularly well-preserved and very rare Mantuan shield, dating from the Austro-Spanish siege of the city between 1629 and 1630, which features on the front the image of St. Andrew with the cross, on the exergue the inscription MANTVÆ and on the back the crucible with golden rods among the flames symbolizing Gonzaga's loyalty to his military commitments (Lot 81, estimate: euro 2. 000 - 2. 500).

An extremely rare half-head of Mirandola (1499 - 1533) of which only two other examples are known, one preserved in the Brescia Museum and one in the Vienna Museum, bearing on the reverse a probable celebration of the gifts of the famous scholar and philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola as a great scholar (Lot 241, estimate: euro 3. 000 - 3,500).

A Ferrara testone with Ercole I d'Este on the obverse and a Hydra on burning coals on the reverse, a coin of extraordinary value and beauty that was issued in 1492 or 1493, coinciding with the start of work on the Addizione Erculea, i.e., the enlargement of the city ordered by Hercules I. The seven-headed monster here is meant to symbolize the malaria that had infested the marshy lands around the city, reclaimed during the work for the expansion (Lot 418, estimate: euro 5,000 - 6,000).

Also worth mentioning is an Urbino testone with Francesco II Maria della Rovere (1574 - 1624), which shows on the reverse a rare and fascinating allegory with an armillary sphere, an astronomical instrument for demonstrating the motion and position of the stars around the Earth (Lot 572, estimate: euro 1,200 - 1. 500), and a 30 ounce Tarì of Palermo, with Ferdinand III of Bourbon (1759 - 1816), which on the reverse features a Phoenix with wings spread over the flames, illuminated by a radiant Sun with a human face, which, according to an account by mint master Gabriele Lancillotto Castello, celebrated the minting of the coin itself, which long remained the ideal coin of the Bourbons, rising like the mythological phoenix from its ashes (Lot 886, estimate: euro 3,500 - 4,500).