Two Artistic Medici Issues

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1141. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Pisa. Cosimo II de Medici. Grand Duke, 1608-1620. AR Tallero (28.35 g, 6h). Pisa mint. Dated 1618. • COSMVS • II • MAG • DVX •ETR • IIII •, radiate and armored half-length bust right, wearing Cross of Malta, holding lis-tipped scepter over right shoulder, left hand on hilt; • 1618 • below / PISA • IN • VETVSTATÆ • MAIESTATIS • MEMOR, crowned coat-of-arms of Medici set on ornate frame. CNI XI 6; Davenport 4195; KM 16.3. EF, toned, struck with slightly rusty dies.