CNG 88, Lot: 1980. Estimate $500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SWITZERLAND, Kanton Bern. Bern. AR Taler (40mm, 29.36 g, 6h). Dated 1795. Crowned coat-of-arms / Soldier standing facing, head facing slightly right, wearing plumed hat and holding reversed sword; counterstamp at center: bare head of Napoléon Bonaparte left. For host coin: HMZ, Schweiz 2-218b; Divo & Tobler 507b; Davenport 1759; KM 149. Counterstamp EF, host coin, Near EF, toned, a few light flan cracks.

Ex UBS 55 (16 September 2002), lot 1247.