CNG 87, Lot: 1876. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MALTA, Knights of Malta (Knights Hospitaller). António Manoel de Vilhena. Grand Master, 1722-1736. AV Zecchino (21mm, 3.42 g, 12h). Dated 1725. F · D · AN : MANOEL DE VILHENA M M H 1725, crowned coat-of-arms / · VINCES · PIETATE ·, St. Jean standing right, wearing nimbus crown, raising head, and presenting banner of the Order of Malta to Grand Master kneeling left. R&S 44-5 var. (obv. legend); Schembri 5-6 var. (same); Friedberg 28; KM 189. Good VF, toned.

Ex Hess-Divo 313 (4 May 2009), lot 433; Glendining (22 May 1974), lot 164.