55 - Italian Football Federation, batch 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, batch 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 given (as a memento and as a token of honor) by the FIGC to all Italian national football team players and their companions during both official and friendly matches. The reverse was engraved with the match, the host city, and the date it took place. The collection that makes up this beautiful collection begins with the Italy-Switzerland match, played in Rome on October 27, 1982. It was a friendly match, which saw Enzo Bearzot's Azzurri return to the field fresh from their World Cup triumph in Spain. The group concludes with another friendly, Italy-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 sensationally defeated in the preliminary round. With the exception of the first medal, all the others are in silver, hallmarked “800” and with the “77FI” mark, i.e. minted by SAF (Stabilimenti Artistici Fiorentini). A set of notable rarity given the extreme difficulty in finding these medals, usually awarded in no more than 30 examples per competition.