Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 878. Estimate $500.
Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.
Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CRUSADERS, Venetians in the Levant. Three Pale AV Ducats. Imitating Venice. Uncertain mint. Struck in the name of Andrea Dandolo, 1344-1354. All coins: St. Mark standing right, holding Gospels and presenting flag to Doge kneeling left / Christ standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels, surrounded by elliptical halo containing four stars to left, five to right. Lot includes the following varieties: (3.47 g). S/H/V/Є/H/Є/T/I D/V/
✠ ΛNDK DΛNDVIO; flag (Bell type 9) / • SIT T XPЄ DΛT O • T • V.-KSIS ISTЄ DVCΛT • // (3.48 g). S/H/V/Є/И/Є/T D/V/X, ΛNDK DΛИDVO, flag (Bell type 11 var. [small pellet]) / SIT T
✠PЄ DΛT O TV KSIS ISTЄ DVCΛT, repunched letters and extensive die cracks on obverse. // (3.46 g). S/H/V/Є/H/Є/T/I D/V/
✠ ΛIDK DΛIDVO, flag (Bell type 12) / SIT T
✠PЄ DΛT O T V-KGIS ISTЄ DVЄΛT, variety with Doge’s neck craned, the ‘I’ representing ‘L’ absent from Doge’s name, more small, erroneous, and malformed punches. Mostly VF, LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Three (3) coins in lot.
From the B.R. Bell Collection.
The above lot includes the only clear example of a Bell type 12 flag that was observed by the cataloger.
