Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 883. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Venetians in the Levant. Two Pale AV Ducats. Imitating Venice. Uncertain mint. Later ‘K Series’, struck in the name of Andrea Dandolo, 1344-1354. Both 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: (3.44 g). S/H/V/Є/H/Є/T/I/I D/V/+ ΛZDK D • Λ • IDVLO; flag type 9 var. (no pellet), strange variety with letters ‘V’ tilted and strange crescent shape at bottom left of flag pole / • SIT T +PЄ DΛT G TV • KSIS ISTЄ DVЄΛVT • (K retrograde), Christ appears to have four eyes and additional star in field (10 total). // (3.52 g). S/H/V/Є/H/Є/T/I/V D/V/+ ΛIDK DΛIDVLO, flag type 9 / • SIT T +PЄ DΛT O TV • KSIS ISTЄ DVЄΛT (P and K retrograde), Christ appears to have four eyes, extra star (10 total) on reverse; unusual diebreak (?) resembling a Turkish horn bow. VF or better, LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Two (2) coins in lot.

From the B.R. Bell Collection.

This lot includes two coins with different unpublished legend varieties.