55 - Italian Football Federation, set of 24 official representative medals distributed during official national team matches from October 1982 to March 1986. Diameter of the medals: 40.00 mm – total weight of the 23 silver medals: 623.00 grams

Italian Football Federation, set of 24 official representative medals distributed during official national team matches from October 1982 to March 1986. Diameter of the medals: 40.00 mm – total weight of the 23 silver medals: 623.00 grams These silver medals were presented (as a memento and a token of honor) by the FIGC to all players on the Italian national soccer team and their companions during both official and friendly matches. The reverse side was engraved with the match, the host city, and the date it took place. This beautiful collection begins with the Italy-Switzerland match, played in Rome on October 27, 1982. It was a friendly match that saw Enzo Bearzot’s Azzurri return to the field fresh off their World Cup triumph in Spain. The series concludes with another friendly, Italy vs. Austria, played in Udine on March 26, 1986. In between are numerous friendlies, and above all, the unfortunate qualifying matches for the 1984 European Championship in France, which saw the World Champion Azzurri suffer a sensational defeat in the preliminary round. With the exception of the first medal, all the others are made of silver, hallmarked “800” and bearing the “77FI” mark, indicating they were minted by SAF (Stabilimenti Artistici Fiorentini). This is a set of remarkable rarity, given the extreme difficulty in finding these medals, of which no more than 30 are typically awarded per competition.