Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 894. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Venetians in the Levant. AV Ducat (3.34 g, 6h). Imitating Venice. Uncertain mint. Struck in the name of Antonio Venier, 1382-1400. • S/M/V/Є/N/Є/T D/V/+ ΛNTO VЄNЄR, St. Mark standing right, holding Gospels and presenting flag (type 1[?]) to Doge kneeling left; pellets in robe of St. Mark and to left of flag / • SIT • T • +PЄ • DAT´ • Q TV • QCIS ISTЄ • DVCΛT´ •, Christ standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels, surrounded by elliptical halo containing four stars to left, five to right. Cf. CNI VII 30; Ives -; Schlumberger -; Gamberini . VF, a few marks.

From the B.R. Bell Collection.